This is what he was born to do. He loved being a Greenie, he could imagine himself eventually and maybe in many years to come to tend a farm with Tany... and Partner at his side, but this was him. Like in his beloved jungles, where he had to rely on his senses, his instincts to survive. Storming down smoke and fire filled corridors of an enemy ship and physically fight was nothing he would ever consider fun, but it was something he understood on its most basic level. Yes, graduation was still. Presumably in your case, because you thought if you said anything, then it would put the stamp of formality on what was otherwise a conveniently informal arrangement?”He nodded.“So how’s the harem?” she asked, “All purring with satisfaction I trust?”He kept his expression neutral, but raised his left eyebrow for a split second.“And what about you?” he asked. “Any particular reason why you’ve kept quiet about the other members of your ‘first eleven’?”“I don’t want to humiliate you. I do still. I used to sit with her and watch the television but we never talked much. I use to head off home on a Friday evening and returned back late Sunday ready for college the next day. One Friday I didn’t go home as there was some work to hand in on Monday which I hadn’t finished. So I was going to work all weekend in my room to finish it.As I was paying for the room Anna agreed. I didn’t bother to study that evening but relaxed with her in the front room. On the Saturday morning I was woken by a. And I smell like some animal’s hind quarters.”She took one look at him and he headed up the stairs, but not before I saw the satisfied little smile she had on her face.Over the next five days I thought a lot about that look and about her curiosity concerning my motivations. I concluded that Corinne was probably the best chance I had of getting to at least talk to Mark.So, I called her and was surprised to find out that she was at home.“Short honeymoon?” I asked.“No honeymoon,” she said. “Elliot.