She had never seen him so excited. Bouncing in his bony arms, she watched the dock blur by. Most of its ports were empty, but several were beset by ma...sive ships which rose high above the waves with colorful sails. Melissa stared at them wide-eyed as they bobbed against the waves. Her family’s pier was further than that of the bustling mainland’s and rose out of the sea as an isolated island. A large but guarded bridge connected the two wharfs and could be submerged during times of civil. There must be other people who’ve protested.’ ‘Who?’ ‘I don’t know,’ said Petal. ‘Not Captain Kerensky, that’s for sure. She was the last person I saw when I woke up here several weeks ago. She told me she was acting on the authority of the Interplanetary Union.’ ‘Are you suggesting that neither the captain nor the union which we are pledged to serve are sane and rational?’ ‘How can they be?’ said Petal. ‘That is unless they know something that’s before now eluded the greatest scientific minds. ”Howard took her hand and walked into the conference hall, like a proud man with his beautiful wife. As the conference was coming to an end, they headed back to the hotel.“You were great Jo; you worked that room and those clients like a Hollywood star.”“You were good too… you do most of the talking.”“Tonight though… Jacob almost committed himself to a future deal and that was down to you. I will be following that lead up now.”“It was nothing.”“Nothing, Jo… I saw what you did.”“And what was. The sight of his wife and her twin sister, bound and struggling on the bed, moaning in bliss, was not what he was expecting at all. No man making love to his wife. He switched between cameras to see if there was a man around. He didn't see one. He switched the video tape machine and rewound the recording tape and watched his wife and her sister bind themselves together and orgasm.Again, he rewound the tape and watched as his wife and her sister. There was no mistaking it. They had tied.