"You could call once in a while." I will, I will, now take me, I belong to you."But she seldom called and it was over a year before we met again. She ...laimed it was because we were both so busy.I was visiting my family for a few days. When Bertha didn't show up on Tuesday I inquired about her. I was thinking the worst, which would have been that she had quit because of my affair with her niece."Oh, we're her Friday now. It works out better," my mother said. Then, she added, "She may not come. When he got up in the morning he was more tired than when he went to bed. Haggard and worn, he went for a walk, finally stopping at a little diner a block from Cindy's.As he came in, a man motioned him over to a booth. "You're Cindy's cousin aren't you? My name is Baxter Jones. I work for her and saw you in the office yesterday. You'll be working close with me some of the time. I'm pretty easy to get along with. I never heard Cindy mention you before. Are you from around here?"Jim was debating. This wasn’t uncommon among the Burgis’. Their race didn’t seem to share the Genteli bi-sexual gene.Zan had found himself a delightful young Prol male the first night in town. They were always easy to find. Their race didn’t look kindly on people who were different. However, as they were often used as slaves, many Prol males like the one he found often ended up becoming Genteli bed buddies by choice. As their sexual preference, was then overlooked, ‘As it wasn’t their fault’.Many of the locals. As Dickie predicted once the reactors were back online Jim healed a hell of a lot faster than he had in the imperial infirmary. He allowed Mary and Amber to assist him which though she didn't know everything he'd done to improve the station, Mary knew what the systems were, as she'd helped to develop many of them. Though they'd had a definitive victory, Jim wasn't that sure the Krong were truly gone completely, he had to make sure no one else was going to die from these filthy bastards. Finally.