I can’t ... right now.”“You don’t have to answer. I didn’t ask a question.”“Yes you did.”“You still don’t have to answer.”“Not... answering is an answer.”“That’s true.”“Can we talk about something else, or does everything need to wait until I have one?”“We can talk about anything else.”“Are we still friends?”“Yes, of course. Always, I hope.”“Are we still lovers?”“Do you want to be?”“Yes, absolutely. Very, very much.”“Then yes. I want that as well.”“Is this going to make everything more. Nervously, I head up the steps. I’m about to knock but the door opens ahead of me and a burly black man greets me. “Aye little miss, I’ve been expecting you,” he greets in a rough voice, shaking my hand and beckoning me inside. “You’ve got some guts, girl,” he adds as he shuts the door. The lights are all on and all the curtains closed. The first thing I notice is the heavy stench of alcohol and drugs. Then I notice the menagerie of black, Spanish, and even a few white people hanging around.. Tina hadn’t been long with the company, and was a good willing worker. Julie liked her very much; she was a friend. She got to the office door with Tina and, prior to knocking, asked her in a low voice if she knew what was happening. Tina replied, ‘Errr, nothing, I don’t know, iv’e done nothing wrong.’ Her demeanour and the catch in her voice said otherwise to Julie. She shook her head, knocked on the door and entered when bade to do so.Jack, her fat boss was sat behind his desk as. Suddenly the vessel started to shake and feel unstable. Ophelia rushed to the helm to see what was going on. By the time she got there everything was back to normal. She checked to logs which revealed nothing out of the ordinary. It struck her as odd, but she had lots of work to do, so she returned to her workstation. At 7:00am Ophelia woke up, happy to see that she had finally arrived at the isolated planet that she had been assigned to work on. The planet was almost completely devoid of.