.I was trying to do the math, but Javier beat me. "She's over eighty." The Confederacy doesn't take..." I objected."Yet here she is," the Decurion cut...me off. "AI, display Nana as she was at transport." The AI threw up this image of an old woman with a cane all in black."You see, child?" the woman said, chuckling softly, "They really CAN make a silk purse out of a sow's ear! I cannot bear children and I have reached the lower limit of what they could do for me, but I am grateful for small. I don’t know about you but I enjoy living and my status.”“So what is it you want to keep quiet, a recommendation to the position of captain of a specific ship or this ship?”“Nothing of the sort,” Marion says. “That is something I will get soon enough. No, what I want is you gone.”“That’s all?” Regina asks dismissively. “Good luck on that one. You’ll have to kill me first.”“I rather not go that route and if you are lucky the Extroneons won’t either, just a banishment of one of their conquered. ." He stepped out of them and bent to shuck out of his shorts; a stiff probe became visible in the darkness. Velma gazed at it, transfixed, while Ed threw his T-shirt over his head. "Lessee what we got here..." Ed tossed back the sheet and reached for the bedside lamp."No!" A hand shot out and grabbed his, then jerked him, off-balance onto the bed. "Ain't no fookin' way you's gonna see me nekkid!" If'n he did, the bastid would run off, Velma figured -- and it was too late for THAT!Ed found. From the corner of my eye, I saw her go back to her room, get some clothes and a towel and move to my bathroom. Once she went in, I remembered and spoke loudly before she shut the door, Shanti, bas zara jaldi karna, mere kuch dost log aane wale hain aur and I kept quiet. She said “Haan babuji, theek hai and then I suddenly heard a loud cry of surprise/shock. I ran towards the bathroom, the door still being open and went inside concerned. I shall never forget the sight in front of me. Shanti was.