" she shrugged forgivingly, "Do you know, my own Mother didn't speak to me for years, over what I'd supposedly done to you. She only wrote when you go... married. Was it any one I'd know by the way?" Er, well," he stammered, " Actually, I married my boss." She laughed, that familiar same pretty laughter." Poetic justice isn't it."He had to agree. They smiled at each other a moment longer and she stoked hi cheek, Sean ran his hand over her knee in response pushing back the hem of her skirt again,. Let's do our job people. Dismiss."The majority of the soldiers rushed out the door to their stations while others remained behind, most of them generals from other services. They would stay with General Grim until the crisis was over to offer their opinions. The General stood and walked over to the coffee pot, motioning for one of his aides to follow. When they were out of earshot of everyone else he whispered, "Call Dennis Butz and tell him to get his ass on a plane. I want him sitting down in. These last couple of days with no movement on our part had let us have hot food for lunch. Meals were usually meat and tubers. During much of the year, greens were also eaten. Coffee was only a memory to me now and an unknown to this land. You could make tea from almost anything and I drank it but always silently mourned the lack of coffee.When our breakfast was ready, I stood and held my hand out to Anna. I pulled her up. When she tried to stand straight on her own, her legs buckled. She would. I tried to engage my brain, desperate to remember what cars my friends actually drove, but all I could think about was the craziness going on in my arse, bladder and tits. I got the car into the drive and parked and struggled into the house. I presented myself in front of the camera. ‘Please can I unlock myself and get the ginger out and pee?’ I stood there an abject mess, why I didn’t just pick up the key and get on with it I don’t know. Somehow the whole experience had drawn me into being.