I made the reservations for dinner and then called Steve."Hey, John, I don't know what strings you pulled but I picked up Jerry a few minutes ago. Jus... a second, he wants to thank you," he said as he handed the phone to Jerry.Jerry started with, "Man, I can't thank you enough. I thought I would be in there for a while. I'll pay you back as soon as I can."I said, "That's okay, just try to remember this the next time you're drinking. Don't drive! Next thing, how's this going to affect your job?". The next siege will have every ship present, and we will fight until we run out. The next siege, when it happens, could wipe out the UHN fleet entirely. The people are scared and angry over Cipra. Loved ones were lost, and nothing could be done to evacuate the people. The whole idea was to evacuate the people off of that planet, to begin with, and it didn’t work. The Itreans kept shooting down the evacuating ships before our eyes. People are paranoid, and they are likely to lash out at other. You see, You have sex in them, people just can’t tell for some reason. There is even angelic sex. And powers in them too! But they are afraid that you aren’t risque enough. Making fun of religion isn’t good enough? Is that what you were doing? No, I was trying to talk about sex. We were talking about risk. I take a lot of risk in my stories. Like, I talked about real people just in fictional contexts. If they ever read it, they’d-they’d know I LIKE them even! I can’t do THAT in real life, if. "What for?" She's scared again – still. Those eyes of hers are wide with fear. Did I mention that they're green? Beautiful. They're hypnotic, reaching out to me from her anxious face."I'm going to wrap your wrists with this," I said, producing the Velcro. "It won't hurt – I'm not into hurting people – but it will slow you down so I can get away. Understand?" Are you going to kill me?" she whispered, her voice shaking.Frustrated, I drop low over her, my masked face close to hers. "Fuck no! I.