They quickly made it to the boy’s room and made sure the door was locked. “You know Faye is going to kill us both if she finds out, right?” aske...d Ian as he almost always did. Faye had been Larry’s girlfriend since their freshman year.“On the contrary” said Larry “I think she’d like to take part to it. So, where would you like to stay this time?”Ian’s eyes found a quite covered corner of the room that seemed to suit. “I’ll sit there” said he, moving a chair in the chosen spot.“Good” agreed. I’ll have to bring these guys along, but they were fighting with us, it feels appropriate. If they hadn’t turned up when they did, you’d probably be drinking alone today.”“Any friends of Bullseye are friends of mine,” Scratcher said, grinning at the aliens.The bar was suitably dingy, it was a fairly small room in comparison to the galley or the mess hall, not much more than a dozen stools lined up in front of a crescent-shaped countertop. The Rorke had four bars spaced throughout the ship, and. I denied...!" he choked"You beat me every time you caught me. I wasn't doing any harm. I wasn'thurting anyone. But you saw it as a threat... A threat to yourmasculinity, I was a son not a daughter, my dressing as a girl wassomething your macho buddies wouldn't understand." I took a breath. "Youmade me withdraw into myself. The son you wanted was weak, shy, andafraid." You had a girlfriend..." he added. "We had hopes..." Julia took pity on me," I replied. "And she actually prefers me to. Steve replied in the negative, and equally quietly. "I suspect shortly after breakfast," he continued, "unless she had too interesting a night last night. I know Eta has some kind of time-sharing arrangement worked out with his women, but I don't know the details. I think the women took the lead on setting it up. It doesn't really matter, though."We'll just have to play it by ear. I'm going to leave the morning open for her, and invite my brothers to meet this afternoon. Unless they have a.