" Why not?" Gortai eyed him suspiciously. "Too many bugs?" Nah, nothing like that. It belonged to the local priest of Kathool before we ran him outa h...re. Some of the boys are kinds leery of it." We'll take it!" Shantar laughed. "Maybe he sent all the bugs 'to serve Kathool'."Mork's unit was taking its turn at patrolling the area around StarVillage. The next few days found them spending a lot of time learning the layout of the village, along with the surrounding hills and ridges."Another ten. Dressing and walking to the beach, getting into the outrigger and leaving the shore. I opened my eyes. I was surprised I had closed them. I wasn't even aware of closing them. I was strangely unaware of how much time had passed. I felt I was oddly short of breath, but otherwise I felt fine. I thought back to the journey through the jungle, and remembered everything clearly. I understood the need for the replacing of desires, and the sense in using sex, one of my strongest desires, as that. But after my nails had dried to a shiny lustre, we left the mani/pedithrone and moved to the styling/makeup department. Mother and my sistershad decided that I was to be a carbon copy of a 1960's Doris Day hairstyle and makeup. My hair had been dyed a lovely burnished golden colortwo months ago in preparation for this moment. The style was to be aPage Boy falling to chin length, rolled under in the back, with longbangs coming from the front of the crown falling to above the eyes andat the. Chris felt almost ill, and put his handto his forehead. In a moment, the guy was at his elbow, gently holdinghim up. "That's it?" Chris repeated weakly. All the whirling thoughts andplans and contingencies in his mind had simply fallen through a hole,and now his head felt completely empty. "That's it," he said firmly, grabbing Chris's hand and placing itin the crook of his elbow. He kept his other hand on top of Chris's."Come on, let's go back to the cars. It's getting dark." He.