The ships that we are using are all new ships built now to about twenty years ago.”The captain went and lifted his left arm. He then activated the p...ojection screen and brought up his own display. He used his other hand to load up some sort of database. The screen went out so that Kane and Ifra could see what the captain was looking at. The 3d image glowed over the table.“Ambassador Ifra ... I am looking at the decoded data from the captured warship computer core. There is ... I am checking it. " James whispered, thinking about the way Randall had looked at him. He had only seen that look in a man's eyes once before. It was at a party, four months in the future, seven years in his past. A party where a man had taken advantage of a boy."Shhhh." Anne said, rocking the girl in her arms. She patted him on the back softly. James felt the warmth of the embrace, the love that his mother was showing him. The cynicism of years drifted away, lost in the clutch of a mother and her child.Time. "You do not speak without my permission," she said. "Do youunderstand?"I hesitated but Janice raised her hand to hit me again so I blurted,"Yes, Miss Janice," very quickly." Now step out and I'll dry you."Janice toweled me off and handed me a pink terry robe. I looked at itnot comprehending."Put it on and follow me," she ordered.I put on the robe and followed her back into the apartment. Janicelifted the phone a dialed."I'm coming down with Missy's replacement," she said into themouthpiece.. We both loved poetry, the same movies and books. Ok, so we disagreed on who was the sexiest celebrety out there. He said it was Angelina Jolie, and I think it was seven of nine from Star Trek: Voyeger. I was still a prude and didn't think of anybody with tattos as sexy, but he didn't agree. He told me I had to learn to look past those things. Maybe I had, and looking into those beautiful blue eyes of his, I wasn't about to argue.While we spoke over the past 5 minutes, I hadn't noticed that.