Oh, she had loved any and all outings when she was a little girl as they were occasions for her to get all dressed up pretty. She loved the attention ...and compliments as much as the music, dancing, and the unlimited soft drinks.However, by the time she reached sixteen these events had become boring. So unless it was a close family member, she had been allowed to stay at home. Now if only her parents had not come home early and caught her on the couch with a momentary boyfriend.Clad in her. If the trip wasn’t good for their marriage, maybe it would be for his art. They had arrived in Honolulu on June 1, for a week of daily instructional ‘shakedown’ cruises before they started out on the ‘adventure voyage,’ June 8. On June 7, while he and Cheryl were trying to have at least somewhat hot sex the last night in their hotel room, the phone had rung and Cheryl had abruptly halted the project at hand which wasn’t anything anyone would call ‘hot,’ saying that Barb had told her she’d call. In a subsequent Suma attack, my own smaller ship was severely damaged. Borin who you know of as a computer entity is actually that. She is a true artificial intelligence. She put me and my crew into stasis before she was also severely damaged."Close on three centuries later a chance movement of the ship caused me to awake. I found two of my crew dead. I awoke Borin and began repairs. Though the repairs could be made anywhere there was a ready supply of raw materials, I still wanted people to be. ”“Not until you finish confessing and sign the confession, waving your rights to an attorney. Once you sign the confession, the bugs will all go away, and you’ll be back to normal. But not until. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?”“Yes! I’ll confess! ANYTHING to make these bugs stop crawling on me.”Dad flashed, “You are one evil spirit, Son. But I like it. I like it a lot!” He was chuckling.Bob made a distress call to the Coast Guard. “Mayday, mayday, mayday, this is the ‘Italian Mare’, we’re dead in the water.