Something went badly – tragically – wrong. We never found out what. Some how the virus got out. The antidote didn't work. The virus had mutated so...me how. With our ease of travel, those infected could not be stopped, and it spread like wildfire. In only a few weeks, everyone on the planet was dead." But where did your people come from then?" Amber asked."Remember, I said that manufacturing, mining, power production, and most research had been moved off planet. My people were a part of those. They fell all over themselves at Mom's approach and treated her as royalty, as I thought only just. After staying less than an hour, counting commercial breaks, she went over to the Nautilus and eventually the academy to show all the recruits not in the tanks. I was quite sure now that the stations were charging an arm and a leg to the companies that were allowed to show their advertisements.The next day, Paul and I were going over the records of the recruits and the trainers and we came on the. Or I could sell you to a brothel in Mexico or South America. Back home you would be just another face on a milk carton, never to be seen here again. There is nothing connecting you to me; I would never even be suspected of involvement in your disappearance."Beth collapsed in her chair, hands over her face weeping."Please, ... please let me go," she begged. "I swear I'll never breathe a word about any of this." We'll see," I stated without commitment. "For now you go back to your cell while I. I looked around the cafeteria there were maybe a dozen people there, most of them studying or eating. Megan grabbed my wrists alone again, as Ashlyn reached into the cup of ice on my tray. She pulled an ice cube out.“Please No.” I whispered. A moment later she began circling the ice cube on my nipple. My stomach was a mass of butterflies and I though I might be sick. The cold sent shivers through me. I couldn’t believe this was happening.“Holy shit.” Mike said. Ashlyn circled the other nipple.