A smile spreads across his face at her excitement. After seeing how the alien tree gave her such pleasure and after feeling intense pleasure from earl...er today, he is happy to see that he is able to do the same.Karen pushes him away from her gently and he sits back on the driver seat while she kicks off her boots and pulls off her jeans. Naked from the waist down, she straddles him, the insides of her calves rubbing against the rough denim of his jeans. Her eyes burn with hunger. Finally she. Report! What shape is your squad in?" Five men able to fight, Sir. Two more wounded but able to carry a pack. Two wounded badly enough that they should really be sent back to the city, and one dead."The sentan scratched a rough tally in the dirt with the point of his spear as other decans reported much the same thing. When they had finished, he counted up the marks he had made."That makes sixtythree men fit to fight, down from seventyone this time yesterday. Two more dead, six more wounded.. At this, he laughed, presumably at his own wit, Ashleigh thought. Right now, her skin was crawling, her ears were ringing, her head was pounding, her lungs were still burning, she was restrained and her husband was dead in the corner of their bedroom. "How can this get any worse?" she cried inside her own mind. She just hoped that she would live. Her only hope was that someone would come by the house when Robert didn't show up for work in the morning. She still had a few more hours to get. While I stood inthe middle of the cold tiled floor, wishing the back of my pajama bottomsweren't wet so I could sit down someplace out of the way, Aunt Joan reachedpast me to drop the clothes she had been carrying onto the closed toiletlid. I was expecting her to wrinkle her nose when she was standing soclose, but all she did was smile at me before kneeling down in front of thebathtub.The faucet knobs squeak as she adjusted them; soon, a cloud of steam beganfloating out of the tub. When she.