Delia woke to the sound of a lawn mower starting in the neighbor's yard, her bleary eyes cracking open only enough to ascertain what the disturbance w...as. It was morning. She stretched like a cat, pushing aside covers that were musky and sweet from the night before. Her blond hair fell about her as she rose, rippling down her spine like platinum snakes of tangled silk. She padded to the kitchen, yawning wide, tawny skin bare and beautiful without a thread of clothing to cover her. At the. It involved thetypical questions about my standards of ethical behavior (none), mywillingness to transfer any sort of illicit cargo (anything, andeverything, as long as the pay was good), and my record with theauthorities (I've been caught four times, but never convicted). By theend of the interview Zorban was impressed, and why not? I really was ahell of a smuggler and my ship The Scarlet Lady was one of the fastest inthe galaxy."I'm going to give you a shot, kid," Zorban said after a. Come on Billy lets go.”I brushed the crumbs off my pants before I stood up hoping nobody noticed.There was a door right off the kitchen that led to the dining room. Ellen took my hand and led me to the dining room. I sat at the table and watched as Ellen took out a deck of cards from a drawer in the hutch.“Do you know how to play War, Billy?”I let out a sigh of relief, “Yeah, I know that one.”“How about if whoever loses all their cards has to pay a penalty?” Ellen suggested with a grin and her. 2 CAP score. I found out that the mother had a 6.1 and the father a 4.2 CAP score. Her brother Byron showed up the second day with his wife Jill and four children. Byron and Jill were below the 6.5 CAP cut off. This meant that without the help of a sponsor that they were going to be Sa'arm nuggets when the Swarm arrived.I was pondering that thought the next day when I heard an escalating argument between Bryon and Jill.Jill was saying, "You promised!"Byron said, "I changed my mind. I love you!.