Mom gasped and showed a hurt expression. “You really do think I’m getting fat, don’t you?” She looked down herself. “I guess maybe I’ve be...n letting myself go a little bit lately...”Alaina blew a raspberry at her. “Uh huh. Sure, Mom.”Mom looked up and winked. “Okay, enough teasing,” she said, her expression turning more serious. “I wanted to see you both, but I’ll admit I had another reason I wanted you both to come by.”Alaina and Will looked at each other.“Lainy, I got your message Friday, but. That fight was still going on.On this trip, as on all recent transits, Happy Hunting Grounds had hypered into the staging area near Jupiter. The Swarm were currently ignoring the gas giants, which let the Navy establish refueling stations and staging areas there. The Swarm would emerge there sooner or later, but for now, they were generally emerging from hyper in the inner system.Happy had done a ‘fast’ refuel, which consisted of using transporters to pump reaction mass gasses directly into the. Sadie crept quietly from her bed and through the house to his room and slowly opened the door, as she tip-toe over to him she heard something…She was to his back and she looked over him and realized he was masturbating, at that she let a loud gasp escape her throat. ‘Sadie! What is it?’ he asked, covering his obvious erection.‘Umm, I uh came to see if you were up so we could discuss yesterday’s events…’ her voice trailed off. He patted the bed telling her to come and sit.They agreed that they’d. Be our servant. What’s your name?”“Marta.”The conquering South army had lived off the land in the final stages of the war, with no supplies coming from their devastated homeland. For housing, they just occupied whatever buildings they liked best. When the fighting stopped, the high command systematically spread the soldiers out more evenly over the cities and larger towns, where they occupied the buildings that suited their fancy. Sometimes a guy wanted a place of his own, other times he valued.