”Tim looked at me as though I was mad. “Why do that, Olga?”Just like Tim, I thought, as he always made a smart alec comment, and he was always d...ing ‘Boys’ stuff. Well, now I had a lever so things were going to be different from now on.I leant over the side of the sofa and lifted up a magazine, putting it on my lap so he could see the cover. It showed a woman dressed in a blouse and skirt, sitting on a chair with a man across her knee, and she was spanking him. Tim froze, which was such a. "So at best the colony might only have twenty active participants. You mean that..."Sergeant Powell spoke gruffly. "Your little council of six is the only group of its kind looking to make the colony work. And the rest of the pacifists back here will most likely help, but you can expect no other help."I put my head in my hands. "Why tell me? At least I had the illusion of hoping we could make it better."Captain Nelson gave a bitter laugh. "Because the AI wouldn't allow me to do anything!. Riving back home that night, I really found it difficult to get Diane out of my mind. For the first time since Connie, I had found a girl I really felt attracted to. With Connie, it wasn't so much a physical attraction for her as it was another quality, which I had taken to labeling charisma. With Diane, it was a strong physical attraction, plus the fact I liked her flamboyant and exuberant approach to life. How many girls would have been willing to make the kind of public spectacle of. King Edward had messengers stationed every five miles from Dover to London. There were also messengers from Kingsgate to London, as well as from the easternmost point at the north of the Thames to London to warn when the fleet approached. They would warn us where the fleet was coming from and how many ships were in the fleet.In addition, a string of reasonably fast fishing boats (faster than the big warships anyway) stretched across the channel from Dover to Calais watching for the Castilian.