"Maybe later, lass." He winked. "I spoke with my grandfather about it. He said, and I quote: 'If I can prevent chafing in the most intimate, sensitive...places; I damn sure can prevent a little sunburn.' Guess the old bastard wants people naked. Wonder why." Claude's your granddad?" Duke asked. "Not a bad impression, either." Thank you." Liam bowed. "Thank you my dear."He pulled on the shorts a just-returned Jo held out."Come take a look!" He called over his shoulder, heading back above.The. "He stated, "I think that office has been closed, but there is one near the hospital."I thanked him for the info but the next morning, on the way to work, I passed the office to check and noticed that the name had changed on the door. Once I got to work, I looked up the company and saw that they no longer had that office. They did, however, have one near the hospital as my Doctor had said. I called that office and set up an appointment for the following Monday at nine-thirty am.Monday. Glancing past the periphery of the ship's beam, he strained to glimpse some of the other one hundred and twenty some ships that had gathered at this desolate spot far above the plane of a five planet solar system with no habitable planets. He could not tell see them.He was there because he was expendable, because he was not a member of the families. One of Benni's security detail was latched to Benni's left side and Qi was latched to Benni's right side. The two of them guided the complaining. Henry got red in the face. He spoke slowly and a little loud as heenunciated every word. He wanted it made perfectly clear to Frankie thatthe book needed to reflect that Henry was a real man, not some faggot orgay. After that, Frankie tried to placate the man's rising temper. Henry said he loved Bell and cherished her uniqueness, but, he wanted itknown that he was not gay. He said that Bell could be labeled anything shewanted, gay, transgendered, whatever, but not him.Frankie was struck with.