No one had everhandled my breasts before and here was my attractivecousin squeezing my nipples to beat the band, even ifinadvertently. It only lasted ... few seconds, but for meit seemed like an eternity. What had been simplehorseplay had instantly transformed.Although Tessa kept squeezing my boobs, my long hairwas in her face and she was apparently oblivious towhat she had in hand. She was still focused on subduingme. In my shock, I had slowed my struggle and Tessatook quick advantage. She was. "Just because you are good at the one thing I don't understand about you doesn't mean I can't be proud of how good you are at it. I will never understand why a girl wants to fight, but that you can be good at it I can understand. Besides, I think Jacob is right, you probably could give Gregory a fight and he is almost twice as old as you are."I think my eyes went cold at that because she flinched away from me, almost scared. "Is he hurting you?" I demanded fiercely, my hands curling into fists. "We placed the vessel in a facility at the farthest reaches of our solar system to await the time when out primary was near collapse. The collapse of the primary would provide the catalyst for launch of the vessel but the propulsion system would be lost from the vessel in the process."The drive used on this vessel caused living tissue to invert and was unsuitable for transport of living organisms. We were unable to develop a variant that would allow our race to leave our system and decided that. Time had ceased to mean anything as she drifted in and out of consiousness. At some point, Kyla noticed a sound. A low hum accented by something reminicent of the crackle of electricity. It got louder and louder, and in a dizzying moment Kyla suddenly realized there was something behind her. She slowly turned, drifting around until she could see. Kyla gaped in awe. It was roughly oval shaped and massive, larger than most towns. Burnished metal floors and girders were floating unattached to each.