" I am." No you can't. Not in your condition." What do you mean?" Mike shouted."I mean," she replied steadily. "Not when you're about to...transform.H...ave you not worked it out yet? You're about to become John's newfianc?e." Well I'm sorry your Son is gay, but I'm going."She laughed mockingly. John was starting at Mike intently."He's not gay. He likes...women."As she said the word, Mike felt a strange jolt throughout his body. Women.Woman. He felt dizzy for a moment and sat on the bed. He turned. "I felt a great loss of life back there." Apparently Makiri found himself a new General. One that can't be killed."Kamwyn shuddered and pulled his cloak tighter about him. "And the army?" In total disarray. She killed half of them just to save her life." Sir!" One of the scouts appeared. "The Southern Trade Road has been blocked off by Gilead troops." Damn." Aerick ran his hand through his hair. "Any way around them?" No sir." The scout caught his breath. "They had skirmishers in the woods.". Once Bren had established that Sophia had gone up to get some sleep, he intended to take the lift to the health deck and work out the aches from standing and sitting all day without any real exercise. But somehow the lift stopped one deck above the flight deck and Bren found himself in front of the door to the only occupied room.It was a minor running joke on the Silvana that they kept such great guest quarters and no one seemed to want to use them. The truth was that Bren didn't like ferrying. All of us were fairly closefriends, and we all were excited about spending two weeks on the beautifullake together.Tom and Joe had been jocks in high school on the football team and were beefylinemen, I on the other hand was somewhat of a computer nerd not gifted in thearea of sports abilities. And I was considerably smaller than both of them,but I had helped them out so much with their studies that we had becomefriends despite our physical differences. I am 5 foot 8 135 lbs and wiry. Theyare 6.