You appear young. What are your plans?”“I am on my way to join the Academy to become a star ship captain.”Her slitted eyes were actually quite b...eautiful in a wild impressive face with golden, black dotted fur that shimmered like silk. “Yes this is a worthy goal if there ever was one. There is no species friend or foe to the Union that does not openly or secretly admire Union fleet captains. It is a special breed of beings, regardless of what species they came from. Saresii, Saran, Shiss,. Ellie called from the courthouse while waiting for the hearing to start. She was nervous and particularly anxious being near Bob, her soon to be former husband. The important thing was that she was staying in room 234, and that she would meet me in the hotel lobby at 6:30 p.m. and we could decide on dinner then. I wore a suit, just in case Ellie wanted to celebrate at a coat-and-tie, white tablecloth restaurant. Promptly at 6:30, she exited the lobby elevator. She was happy and relieved that. “Do you still have command authority to assign them?”“A hover?” Sparky asked. “What do you need a hover for?”“They’re kicking my slagger out of here in the next few days,” Gath said. “Before I go, I want to remove those drug cartridges from the wells I installed them in.”Sparky was already shaking his head. “That’s impossible, Gath,” he told him.“So, they took away your command authority for hover assignment?”“No,” he said, “I can and do assign hovers for missions. That’s not really the. SNAP went the gun in my left ear. As had happened lastweek, the clerk came around and made sure that the holes would alignperfectly. Satisfied she walked around and I heard the gun go SNAP! onceagain. I was beginning to miss myself. That may sound insane, but it's true. Ifound myself wondering whether insanity ran in families. We made our wayto the front of the store and Mom paid the bill. How was I ever going toexplain the second set of earrings? Sure, there were plenty of guys outthere with.