The room had a nice soft buzz of people who were used to seeing each other at social events. Clemmie was seated three tables away, both of us with our...backs to the stage so we could keep an eye on the room and especially any activity at the exits. I had Anita Thompson on one side and Martin Sanchez on the other. She startled me by launching into fluent Spanish with Martin, leaving me in the dust. She put her hand on my arm, ‘I’m told everyone calls you Theo. May I?’ I told her that was fine and. We then started talking about sex, you see, I just can’t control myself. We got to the subject of the wildest place that we ever had sex. Luke’s craziest place was on his parents living floor with his stepsister, with his parents in their room and relatives staying in the basement, anyone could have walked in on them. Phil had sex with a girl just outside of the police station. My story was the time my family took a Southern Caribbean cruise. We had hit a couple of the islands, and the last. "How are things?" asked Alice Freeman as she stepped onto the bridge."Fine," replied Jon Wells, the First Officer, from his position leaning against the command chair.Alice raised an eyebrow at the Lieutenant who was first officer of the ship and he shrugged in response."How else would you describe hyperspace?" he asked philosophically. "There's nothing to look at and 'Eddie' is performing as normal. The load hasn't budged an inch and I'm bored almost to death."Alice couldn't help grinning at. Of a morning, they have a ritual which involves sitting on their back porch, sipping coffee before going back in for breakfast.Sandy always comes out early, I guess she is up usually before her husband.She will often sit there sipping her coffee, glancing in my direction. She can see straight into my room, though the distance would not make it easy to see too much. Though, I guess seeing that I can see enough of her in detail, she can see enough too.To begin with, we were both happy to just.