We were going to run out of diners at this rate.Know your enemyI walked through the battle field littered with the broken, shattered bodies of my many... fallen comrades. We had come here in force to find out what had befallen the colony we had seeded here thousands of years ago. It hadn't taken all that long to discover that the humans had executed a wholesale massacre upon my people. The few that we had found alive, were more like wild savages living off what they could scavenge, breeding with. It would be a first-person story! The wife, who was instantly likeable, is named Aubrey and the girls in the story are Ruby and Scarlett — if Jim doesn't like it, he can voice his opinion.Having this all done, I told the girls I was leaving to talk to my publisher, and would be back to take them to dinner — they squealed and said, "OK Daddy!"I had the first fifteen chapters finished, but Jim asked for ten, and that's what I took him. I walked into his office and carefully handed the first 109. .. um ... um ... working." Carla said as she bit her lower lip in anticipation on what was to come."Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" he asked as he gently caressed the side of her aging face, but Johnny didn't see that, he could only see her beauty."I'm hoping that it will be a very, very good thing." Carla cooed in an innocent voice as she gazed into his dark eyes and she imagined looking into them as they made love."I'll do my best to make sure it is. Let's hurry and drink this and we'll. You could have kept her for yourself or simply turned her loose, but you didn't. You negotiated well with Al Fah Karim, getting a far better price than I ever thought you could. You are rich, Mioki, rich! Now move on. There are other conquests to be made..." Other bodies to be sold?" she asked."If that is what it takes! The world demands you be strong, Mioki. If you can't be strong, the world will devour you... and I have nothing left to teach you."The implied threat was more than enough to.