Okay, the gun couldn't fire backwards. We gave it clearance to fire about 115 degrees from dead ahead, both 'above' and below', and verified that the ...gun worked properly with undersized slugs. We didn't try full-weight slugs at full power any further off than about 12 degrees, as the whole ship was shuddering already.We set the software stops to 10 degrees up or down, with the understanding that, if necessary, they ship could fire past that, but the farther off center it was, the harder it. . use your fingers,” she gasped out in her frenzied need that was growing. Michael obliged and slipped two digits deep into her spasming depths, he thrust them in time and again ... and then added a third. Maria cried out loudly, their friends in the nearby rooms had to have heard it.“UGHNNN ... UHGHNNNNNN ... OH MY ... FUCKKKKKKKKKKK!” Maria yelled louder until she climaxed. She bore down on his fingers hard, making it all but impossible for him to move them in the slightest but his tongue. Alastair taught me everything I knew but not that deep recessive memories would arise so far down the road. He taught me that every ten years a vampire slowly matures so at the age of 105 I fully matured but the psychosis of my trauma had waged war on my mind. Feeling a cool splitting on the top of my head as my mind replayed the events of a century ago I cringed screaming and hollering curling up into the fetal position my body arresting itself into this position for what seemed like hours. "I stayed with him until he fell asleep a couple of hours later. Two dayslater he died. Barbara and I went to his funeral, but I didn't knowanyone. I stayed to listen as others described him, then we left. I wassilent on the ride back. I'd thought I was tying-up loose ends, but thatbrief moment with my brother stayed with me, more than a memory, lessthan a presence, and I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd been changed.***A year passed since I'd returned to Earth. Barbara had long since.