" Derwen openly cried now, turning her head away from me, as I snaked my arms around her waist and kissed her neck gently."Grimm, what is the security...situation here?" I asked, pointedly.She was dressed in casual trousers and a loose, white linen shirt rather than in her shipboard, warrior look―her female curves much more noticeable out of the armor. Grimm shifted the hilt of her sword, causing it to tap her long leg. "Hajin has surrounded Lady Derwen's estate with his entire training cadre.. I wasn’t alone in this as the glances and outright stares from most of the men we passed clearly showed. Alice herself was a little subdued, but still the bright, lovely woman I knew. “She’s taking it well,” Carmen said eventually as Alice paused to look into the window of a designer clothing store, “at least we didn’t have tears or tantrums.” “She would never do that,” I chided, “but I feel so bad for her - she’s so frustrated,” I said, “after all the build-up we both gave this holiday, for. "Maybe you'd like to take a shower and get out of those clothes. You can use our bathroom and I'll find you something to put on so you don't have to put those smelly things back on again. Heck, leave them after your done and Missy will put 'em in with her next wash," he said casually adding, " …. I'll get the shower after you're finished.".Leon was bemused, this all seemed so surreal. He didn't quite know what to make of the situation but he felt a stirring in his loins when he was directed by. Unfortunately, Jake had never had the chance to seek out and make contact with any curvaceous lifeforms of the female persuasion while he was under the watchful instructors at the Academy. Even more annoying, his first assignment straight out of the Academy had sent him to this barren ball of rock in the forsaken, but supposedly strategically important, Epsilon Sector, where there had been numerous, mysterious disappearances of scouts and explorers over the years.Jake had thought things might.