" With a grunt, she pushed herself off the tree. "Come on, let's get dinner going. I want to see how little potato is left after a blind boy uses a kn...fe on it."The ale wasn't helping Sam's mind blot out the singing.The music was faint, coming from the village, through trees and down into a dell. Faint, yet it overwhelmed the night air., beat and melody combining to disturb all thought. And Sam had to think. Had to reason her way through this.They were saying her love was ... gone.Not on this. Inertial damping was not as effective against the gargantuan masses of the fleet's capital ships, so any movement was staged so that the superdreadnoughts started first, followed by the dreadnoughts, then the battleships and carriers, as well as the missile drones. The cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, and a swarm of smaller craft that had no equivalent class in Earth Navy terms, and were dubbed 'Utility Fast Weapon Platforms' or UFWPs.The display labeled each class of ship for the benefit. I’d gotten Mom to help write it; she knows the kind of thing that grown-ups want to read in those kind of letters.Honestly, she wrote most of it. I signed my name at the bottom tho, when she was done.“Well, uh,” he stammered when he was done. “We’re going to miss you, Tiffany.”I don’t think he even noticed that he licked his lips while saying that.“Call me Tiff,” I said with a smile, and he nodded in response.Before I left, I couldn’t help but give him a big hug. He was almost thirty, and so I. Ana told me she wanted to rinse her hair before coming back to the bungalow.She pulled her dress over the head and got naked inside the cabinet. There was a wooden bench not far away; I decided to sit down and wait for her.One minute later a saw a dark shadow approaching the shower cabinet. It was a real huge black man wearing just swim trunks. He got closer to sneak between the louvers. I wasn't sure what to do, so I just looked in to see what happened. I was hoping he didn't scare Ana too.