While I wasn’t the only parent with a ribbon rack or in uniform, I was the only one sporting the Medal of Honor. Even when I was stopped for being a...med, the Medal and my badge earned me a salute and entry to the event.We didn’t sit with the Effners. Senators and Congressmen (and Congresswomen) had their own section with the important people, like defense contractors and lobbyists. The better to beg for campaign contributions, Bo told me. I was so glad I never went into politics; it had been. . speaking of outgoing comms and news from the Sol system, you’re going to see a lot of my face when this data dump finally reaches you. In the same batch with this message will be a lot of news comms and holos about ... well ... kind of a nasty incident we had here with the homers. I’ve told you how savage many of them are ... about the kinds of things they do to each other. Well ... a few days ago I was the medic on an incident that was ... uh ... pretty bad, even by homer standards.”He gave. Her legs opened slightly and she murmured as if lost in a dream, "No... Please... Not again. Please... Please... NO... Oh, please... Please... Yes... Yess... "Then she was awake, her eyes flashing wide open and recognizing Ponkert crouched beside her."Milord, what happened? I remember Yngvi and his thugs making sport with me--and then everything went black," she said, rolling to her side as if trying to hide her abused sex from his eyes. "That must have been after the third or fourth time I. “He sides with my doctors! And all they do is give me drugs! I don’t need the drugs, Mike! I’m fine!”She actually DID sound fine, minus the whispering. But I’d known her for nearly four years, and when her medication was right, and there was no stress, she seemed normal. But she’d had three incidents, each one worse than the previous one, and each one related to me in some way.“I don’t know what I can do, Ang,” I said gently.“Talk to Doctor Mercer and Doctor Hoffman! Tell them I’m OK!.