She paused, staring at him for a long moment before she replied, “The galaxy is teeming with evil men who prey on the weak. I want to be like you; a...force for good. It’s all I’ve ever really wanted.”John sighed, and said, “There’s more to life than justice and vengeance. When my fight is done, I want to settle down with the girls, raise a family with them.”A flicker of grief flashed across Sakura’s face as she said, “My old life was torn away from me. I’ve got nothing left to go back to, so I. They slip off the bed and wrap their arms around each other and kiss. The kiss is deep and passionate. They use their tongues to lick each other’s lips before slipping them into one another’s mouths. Sola breaks the kiss to pull Riley’s shirt up and over her head.“I think I want to stop talking and play a little,” Riley says, smiling at her brother. Then her hands go to the bottom of Sola’s shirt. Justin watches intently as she pulls the shirt over the alien’s head. Riley rub her hands of. His eyes were closed. Good. That would let him imagine and try to anticipate whatever it was she would do next.Without speaking she pressed her lips against his. Chapped. His lips were chapped and were rough against hers, but she gently pushed to get him to part his lips enough for her to move her tongue inside to find what it sought. When he responded she moved her hand once more down his torso to his waist.She broke the kiss but didn’t move her mouth away from his. “Roger, I love to kiss. That these aliens had done this for the purpose of plunging the Intrepid into the unknown depths of the Anomaly was plausible, given that nobody really believed that the Interplanetary Union would so authorise the effective suicide of the crew and passengers where there was no conceivable scientific benefit. More difficult to believe, of course, was that the officers’ identity had been stolen by androids that could convincingly deceive the passengers and the rest of the Intrepid’s crew. ‘Are.