I was half-terrified at what was happening, well away from the safety of the captain. 'I'm enjoying it', I lied and she laughed.'Down it!', she cried ...nd as I put the tankard to my mouth she tipped it up so it flooded into my mouth. As I swallowed as quickly as I could, my mouth, tongue and throat, all started burning, but there was no end to what was pouring in.Panting for breath, I could hear my tormentors behind me laughing when the Commander spoke to them.'Catriona, Clara. That's enough.. I felt like I had been gut shot. I lay back in the bed and looked up at the ceiling as my eyes filled up with tears. The tears leaked out while I silently mourned for my dear friends."Guess who did survive, though?" she asked me in hopes of making me feel better."Who?" I asked."Your favorite redhead," Miri said smiling."No kidding? How? I saw her ship go up and take about a hundred TSN ships with it," I said."Well, it seems Yolanda decked her and stuffed Jesse in a life boat right before she. Nancy walked behind me now and wrapped her arms around my waist looking at him. You don’t think it too revealing do you Mike? He just said no and I could see the bulge starting to grow in his crotch area. I smiled and asked what he thought about Nancy’s taste in outfits so far and he said she has impeccable taste and couldn’t wait to see that outfit with suspenders and nylons on me. Nancy spoke up, oh you like those too? I have some if you’d like to see what she’d look like in them. We both. I fired my second shot the moment I saw the second man. In my haste, I hit him in the gut, instead of the chest, but he, too, fell to the ground, so it did not make much difference.Meanwhile, Nina fired both barrels from her shotgun through the door when it was only partly open. She immediately dropped the shotgun and drew a pistol with her right hand. Her range had been so short that the buckshot had little time to spread, but she had practically cut one of the bandits in half and had.