"Ivy? Ivy, is something wrong?" She stared at Adam and realized she hadn't heard anything he'd said in the last couple of minutes. "No, I…I mean, I'...m fine, but I don't see Willow anywhere. She went with Clay and Fern and Holly but…." Her eyes narrowed as she saw Holly return and stand next to Clay, then Ivy stalked over. "Oh, Clay, she's so lucky you were here to help." Holly looked appropriately concerned. "Fern, I'm so sorry. If you hadn't been out looking for my phone…." "It's okay, Holly.". "I have to thank you Captain, not just for the fact that you are one of the few company commanders who treats clones as if we're soldiers and not just canonfodder, you also treat us like regular men. It's a true shame the admiralty can't clone you and put one of your clones in each company in the fleet." Parsus finished, it was sincere, most previous company commanders didn't see Parsus or Hector as anything more than an organic android, usually refusing to acknowledge the "names" the clones. She would appear to be well worth cultivating," Geoffrey said approvingly, getting a smile and nod from Millicent.Geoffrey mused for a few minutes whilst drinking his coffee on the situation to the North. The Scottish government had once been quite a thorn in the side of her southern neighbour. That and the oil fields meant that initially they had quite a bit more in the way of economic clout. They were also the home of various dissident groups who opposed the New Coalition regime and were a. I can tellhe just loves all my girlie things." I could see Mother was a little taken aback by how you were sort oftaking charge of the conversation (as I sat there meekly) but she saidnothing. Little did she know you were just getting warmed up. You tookyour Chanel lipstick (Rouge Coco Shine, in Flirt) out of your purse andstarted applying. "For example," you said, "I could see that every time Iapplied my lipstick, he looked just like an entranced little boy." Atthat you giggled and added,.