“You just can’t drink too much your first time or you’ll likely get sick. Anyway, I want to know more about you.”I told her about my family, m...y business, school, and the stuff I liked to do. She told me about High School, her family, her friends and her interests.“I want to go to college in three years and after what I hear from Stephie, I think I’m going to go to school out west, maybe in Colorado, Arizona, or California. I want to get away from Dawsonville, at least for a time. My family’s. They had to have ice cream! Double dip cones, hand made ice cream. Giggling like a coupleof kids, they slid into the only available booth, one in the backcorner of the store. “You’re getting all messy,” he said, watching the ice creamroll down the side of the cone onto her hand. “Maybe it’s too much foryou to handle.” “Too much for me to handle?” She raised an eyebrow at that.Twisting the cone in her hand, she looked it over carefully. “I. "She looked the camera in the eye. "Mister Vice President, Mister Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, you are named in these papers and signed them. We are ready for you. You will not defeat us, you will not intimidate us, you will not deter us from performing our duty. The police force of the city of Notasulga with local assistance will repel any efforts to illegally extract or kill our prisoners." That completes my statement. You may review the documents in my hand. I will give out. .. Pride?He grinned, then gave her a thumbs up. “Nice!”Ceaith snorted, her ears flicking up. “Maybe this’ll work after all, dork.”Chirp and Xora smiled at one another.“Also, I’m going to be fucking her,” Ceaith said, jerking her thumb at Xora, then to Chirp. “And them, if they bottom.”“They do!” Ember said – causing Chirp to squeak and duck behind the door.“Niiiiice...” Ceaith purred.The Starshrike’s passage through the Sunder was faster and safer than it would have been through the surface.