Neither woman wanted to stop servicing me, making themselves so brazen that one of the female patrons approached me before I knew it and gave me a Fre...ch kiss well worth remembering forever afterward. She also had a wedding band on, and the look on her husband’s face was priceless, especially as she changed from curious to ardent. The hubby had dangerous storm clouds in his eyes for a moment, but then she turned to him and whispered something. He nodded and gave me a Kiss as well, instantly. Once Elaine had shared her memories of the terrarium's control panel, the Praetor had coached her on how to 'drive' the thing.Well, she sure hoped the Praetor had gotten it right, because as she rematerialized in the center of the scorched circle in the meadow where the most recent wormhole had occurred, the alien terrarium was already opening up its preprogrammed wormhole. She allowed herself to be sucked from the reality of New Eden and across the universe to feed an omnivorous plant that was. Stanley was throwing one of his cocktail parties at the Marriott Hotel on Saturday night. This was the first time since I had met Sonya that I didn't want to go to one of Mr. Stanley's parties. I didn't tell Sonya because I didn't want to have to explain. I just kept quiet while Sonya talked about needing a new dress for the party.On Wednesday night I came home to an empty house. When Sonya wasn't home a half hour later I began to worry and as the hour grew later I began to get angry. At 7:30 I. “Robert, you were wounded yourself, what could you have done on one leg?”“I could have been there with him, and if I had been I might have been the one hurt not John. That man did not deserve to die that way.”“Robert, no one, not even the enemy deserves to die that way. It happens in war, and there is nothing that can change that. You are not to blame, and you could not have changed it in any way, except to die yourself.”He continued; “You have a very severe case of ‘Survivor’s Guilt’ and I am.