"If I had any say I'd shave off those bloody whiskers! They tickle like hell!" What? You don't like that?" Jim asked innocently before nuzzling her ne...k again."Eeek! Stop that, please!" Rose shrieked. When he let go she glowered at him. "You can't make me scream like that. What will the servants think?" They'll think that I'm a lucky man!" Jim smiled down at his wife. "Will you take off that dress now or shall I have to tickle you some more?"Rose stared back at him with smoky eyes. "If I take. Small just chuckled and stated thatit doesn't matter... they would find unwilling men to fit the role ofHose House employees! Dr. Small also stressed that having these trapped,unwilling employees would provide Don with workers that will submit toevery command, with a faint glitter of hope for possible releasesomeday...Don wasn't sure about this. Wouldn't this be involving kidnapping andnumerous other "illegal" actions? Dr. Small said yes, but there wereways to get around the legal "loopholes".. “) We ruefully noted that nothing ever seemed to really get solved back on Earth in those last forty years or so. Troops would just be shuffled from one hot spot to another, decade after decade. Not that we sighed in longing for the total devastation that was WW2, but we both agreed, at least, that WW2 had eventually stopped.The stand-up fight that that I assumed to be in the works for Metek’at was too simple, of course. Marine though he was, Sparky knew that stopping the Swarm’s galactic. Derrick could only smirk he'd remembered little Joey telling him years ago that he wished that some day he could actually see the Imperial palace. Walking back to Derrick he hesitated a moment then asked, "You mean to tell me that all of this belongs to you?" Derrick thought a moment then replied, "No actually it belongs to the people they are allowing me to use it while I am ruler." Derrick told a shocked then huge smiling Hartwell. "Now you really are starting to sound like a true ruler of.