‘Well, the least I could do is build you a fire in that fireplace for attempting to steal your cabin’, he replied. As he bent to the task she watc...hed him. Thinking about what her friends and family would say if they knew she was alone in a secluded cabin with a stranger. She wasn’t sure if it was what she had to drink or where she was in her life, but the thought came to her mind… ‘but they don’t know…do they?’ As the fire began to burn he turned and caught her watching him. The smile on her. In the center of that chamber was the device, which looked like a high-tech version of the barbaric electric chairs they had used to executepeople back in the primitive hell that was the twentieth century.Strapped into it was Doctor Janice Lester. Catching sight of me shegrinned.And suddenly there she was again, the beautiful woman I had loved duringthe year we'd spent together at Starfleet. It had ended badly. I blamedmyself, one more regret in a life that already held too many."I beamed down. The feeling was good, but knowing this was the girl who broke my heart was a real turn off, and I started to feel uncomfortable. As is the way with dreams you can never control them, and I found myself twisting and turning, feeling harder to breath until- SPLASH! I burst out of the bath, throwing tepid water everywhere. I had drifted off and slipped a little under the water, swallowing half a pint of soapy suds, and the bitter taste mixed with the sour flavour of my fantasy gone bad. I dried. I mean ... what would happen to a guy in that situation?" You mean a guy who can remember that he hit somebody, but can't remember anything else?" Yeah," said Kris tightly. "I mean it could be something from his past that is over and done with ... couldn't it?"Mitch cupped his chin in the web between his right thumb and forefinger."You mean it was processed ... investigated ... adjudicated ... and he just can't remember that part?" Yes," said Kris."Then it wouldn't be a complication, except as.