As for them, for a minimum investment they got an operation with the potential to grow into a large profit business. My own concern was the blackmail ...aspect of the operation. It wasn't really blackmail unless certain criteria were met. It could and would be argued that the levels had not been met for a blackmail charge to stick."My level was different from Mary Ellen. I believed that any threat was a problem. I thought we could use the same recruitment technique, just tell the women how safe it. ‘Oh Sara…thank you…I know this is strange. It is for me too. We can stop now if you want to.’ She insisted but not all that enthusiastically.Sara looked up at her in the low light of the bedroom. They had been in there cuddling for over and hour and it was getting dark outside the window.‘No! We can’t stop. But maybe we can light a couple of candles. Its getting kinda dark in here don’t ya think.’ Sara said with a smile.Karen, surprised by this reaction only nodded as Sara got off the bed and. Until now it felt like we had just been fucking but now, with Launa I felt what it was like to make love. Sex with feelings was even better than what I had experienced before, and at that moment I knew and I said it out loud..., "I love you too Launa".We stayed in bed all afternoon just talking and kissing but eventually the subject had to come up. "What do we do now"? I asked."I have to leave him" Launa replied. "What ever happens next with you and me, I can't stay in this sham with Mark but. We just had to stay ahead of them.Four months after New Leaf left, she returned with some of the parts we needed and other supplies. Many low level techs arrived to learn and to work. The battleship was going to be built much quicker this way and the Wikki were making most of the vessel. They only brought the intricate components and the materials for making the fabricators necessary for making the large components.New Leaf could not talk much because we both knew that the head queen would have.