" They were throwing live people out of the ship?" wondered Sheila aghast."Slavery is illegal in international law, Sheila," said Petal. "The slave tr...ders would expect to be prosecuted by the Interplanetary Union if they were found to be in possession of thousands of slaves shackled together in the hull. As it was, if help hadn't come within hours rather than days then the slaves would all have been exterminated. I knew nothing about this at the time. It was only after we were rescued that I. Jade, still very naked, had managed to cool down and was no longer on fire as she and Sam peered over the banister at the safe Carly, and the seemingly mutant Freddie."Gibby, go downstairs and get us some water, if you don't mind," Jade said, calmly. "I need some clothes."Gibby did as he was told and headed down the stairs to get them some water bottles that were leftover from the party. As if something just clicked, Freddie found his arms beginning to retract a few seconds after Gibby. As fate would have it, Dean was busy so he could not drop Jamey at the airport. This caused his face to drop even more. Then the Cougar in Laura took over. It was late Friday afternoon when Laura decided to run by the grocery store to get the essentials for the weekend. And who would she run into? Dean! He was there picking up ‘some stuff’ for the weekend. Dad was out of town on business and the poor puppy had to fend for himself. Her first thought was, ‘so where is your little redhead then’. I picked up a book entitled Magic by Swami dated 1923. It was a Friday night and I devoured Magic in one reading, it was mostly stage magic and slight of hand. After I read it and was putting the book into my bookcase, dropped it and a small, thin old checkbook slide out of the back page.There were three checks stapled together and a small thin red golfer's pencil. To this day I am not sure what compelled me. I opened the old checkbook and started to write on the check. "Tina is addicted to me.