"Looking thoughtful, I said, "that's a shame. Not that I ever cared for Alice all that much, but still... "Actually, I find it hard to believe she che...ted on Marvin. It was obvious she loved him, and what kind of woman who loved her husband would hop in bed with another man behind his back?"I looked innocently at Edie while making this little speech, and enjoyed the sight of her avoiding my eyes. She did manage to lie to me, though."I was thinking the same thing, baby. It seems much more likely. I thinks that your heart is still there?Angie looked a lot happier when I left, and I ensured that she locked all the doors before I left. I was home much later than I expected and Jean was a little worried.The next morning I telephoned Captain S/M, and put him I the picture about the behaviour of these drunken officers. He sympathised with me. "Tony we would not consider them normally, but we are so short of qualified navigators that we are scraping the barrel. However, would you please get. “Relax its ok, hard-ons happen. I take it you haven’t done any of the things they’re doing in those pics, have you?” He asked calmly. Regaining my composure I said,” No, I didn’t even know people did that stuff. Why do they do it anyway?” “Simple kid, it feels really fantastic. Have you ever had anything in your butt? I mean besides shit of course.” I thought about it and said, “Well, they used to stick a glass thermometer in there to take my temperature till I turned eleven.” “OK. Now be. " Oh I noticed." You could barely keep your eyes off me." She said smiling."Sorry, I couldn't help it." I said, looking down."Oh I'm not upset about it." That night I spent hours online, reading about people coming back. I seemed to have been lucky, some came back to their houses gone, family moved away and worse but I was just thankful to be alive. I rolled to my side in my uncomfortable bed and noticed a little light coming through the wall. Curious as to what it was I got up and looked.