A variation of BINGO won out and they settled down to play. Brenda was declared to be a neutral party and asked to preside over the game. She agreed a...nd Bruce looked at her like he thought she was crazy. Brenda just laughed at him and launched the first round of the game.It took several hours of play before the ships were all parceled out, but the 16 ships were finally divided among the players. There was a problem, each ship needed three people to run it properly: a captain, a navigator, and. He was really happy for Malcolm, who seemed to make good progress in his quest to overcome his fear of water. He and T'Pau had become 'training partners' in their joint quest to overcome their specific fears associated with using the bathing facilities, occasionally joined by Hoshi, who would have to take over 'Malcolm watch' once T'Pau returned to Vulcan. They usually commandeered the facility an hour before the regular neuropressure training with Hoshi, making sure to keep the spa free at the. She looked scared, Jack thought."Close the door and have a seat," he said.Suzanne did as she was told and sat facing Jack across his desk, looking down at her hands folded in her lap. Jack was breathless for a moment, just seeing her again, smelling her scent, remembering. She looked up, then, and he saw no anger in her face, but neither did he see the sparkle.Jack cleared his throat. "Did you have a good holiday?" Yeah, it was nice," Suzanne replied. "You?"Jack smiled. "Yeah, it was good.". I stared at Thrak. If I killed him, it was what he deserved. I unleashed the ball of compressed air.A huge wind bowled over imps before me on its way to strike the monsters crawling over my Thrak.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Lady Delilah“They went through there,” Shaman Farsight said, rubbing his papery hands together before the roughly round shape of the cave entrance. “I told Xandra not to let the strangers in to the caldera. But she took one of the strangers as a mate.”I gave him a look..