In-between a trip or two outside to have a snowball fight and build a snowman, all with Hoot's enthusiastic help of course, Anna and Jamie had spent t...e day baking chocolate chip cookies, talking or sorting out some more of Jake's things, and, basically, cleaning house.Generally, it had been a fine day so far and, perhaps Pate would be able to finish up early enough to come by, as if he didn't live in the opposite direction. Hard to believe that they had only been acquainted for a few days. We all knew of Thrawn's reputation for being unforgiving and we assumed that, because GUSTAV had had to retire from the action at CT-38 that we would be held accountable for what was ess- entially an intelligence failure. The fact that we had put up a terrific fight against a numerically and qualitatively superior foe would matter little.Cibock sighed, then turned to J'Una. "Well, Commander," he said, "I'd best go greet the admiral. Assemble the senior officers in the conference room in the. She said you were….exciting." She was moaning a lot, and not in pain either, I can see why now," as she spoke, her cheeks flushed a deep red, almost as if a rose petal had fallen and landed on her, as her eyes flashed a quick, almost sultry look at him.Just as he turned again to face the girl, there was Simone, walking thru the side door coming toward him and her sister. They were dressed virtually the same, both had light colored blouses, partially unbuttoned and tucked into blue jeans shorts. Maisie made little distinction between her girl- and boyfriends, and often made love with girls from her college, an activity which Emma had less difficulty in understanding and no difficulty at all in participating in. Many of them were at least as beautiful as Maisie, though few had such luxurious curls and, to Emma’s mind, such a beautiful combination of physical and personality characteristics. Emma quite enjoyed the comparison and contrast in these other young bodies to that of Maisie’s,.