." Her eloquence failed her."That I might blow up the Warlock? I think you did a good enough job of that." He said, looking her over more closely. She...looked as tired as she had when he had left her the day before. How much had she slept? "I see you've got the engine running." Yes. It felt ... strange with the engine off." She dug in her pockets, pulled out a fast protein bar and started to eat it. She deftly inserted herself between Bren and the ship and looked over the engine. He said he was wearing a bra like it was nothing, perfectly normal towear it all his life. He was nervous, but accepted his fate.I told them of my disease and my wife's help to cure me of the Feminizerdisease. They were both blown away hearing my story. All three of us"bonded" and held hands saying we will get through this.It seemed the three teachers were listening to us. They came back intothe room with big smiles saying, "OK girls, it's time to get started.Let's go down to the beauty salon. Just constant dull pain and brief moments of respite from angelic whispered voices.When I awoke in my hospital bed, there was a feeding tube in my nose, IV tubes in my arms, and my hands were cuffed to the rails of the bed. "At least I won't break my nose this time", I thought to myself. I remembered the dead biker's lifeless eyes and wondered how much trouble I was in. I looked over and saw Samantha dozing in a chair next to me."Hey!", I squawked. My throat was so dry that it hurt when I. .." she started but stopped and simply laid a kiss on me that took all my attention. When we came up for breath, all our hearthmates except Rose and Cassie had kissed Josh and made him welcome. Rose went to welcome him, as well. I followed and we grasped each other's arms like one of those old Roman handshakes and I welcomed him as well."You're missing one, brother," I said. I turned him around and he was face-to-face with Cassie who had been standing naked behind him. They stared at each other.