Captain Kel'shurul informs me that they must return immediately after delivery. The ship is needed elsewhere." We'll be ready, father. The new crews h...ave been hard at work in the simulators, and our four available shuttles have been flying 24/7 since we began the new program." Excellent! And as you know, we've finished the design work for the new parking tethers. Installation and testing will be finished in time for the T'shu-gulara's arrival. It's going to be very inconvenient, I know, for the. The barracks office was all the way across the front and included the duty NCO bunk room. My bunk was the middle of the five on the bottom. I started back out of the barracks and the duty NCO asked where I thought I was going I looked at him. Not wanting to cause trouble I explained about my duffel bag. He got cocky and said I should have taken care of it before checking in to the barracks. I pointed at the jeep the Colonel thought it important enough to have his driver take me around. It. Even as she looked over my body, it was with a sense of appreciation.“You’re still in really good shape,” she said.“I go to the gym with Rick a couple times a week,” I said. “Just fitness stuff; we’re not bodybuilding or anything. I can’t do much lifting with my arm.”“No, it’s ... nice,” Liz said. “Why do you have hair on this side?”“Uh, this leg was straight when I would slide,” I said. “You get what they call ‘strawberries’ on the leg you tuck beneath you. They’re abrasions. I have the same. Chris noticed the book on Claire’s desk.“…that’s an interesting book.”She blushed a little.“Interesting because you think the title is interesting? Or interesting because you know what it’s about interesting?“Then second one,” he said, and cracked a smile.He decided not to be obvious and look her up and down, like he had done so many times before. He knew she knew he was attracted to her, and knew she had probably guessed, correctly, that she was just his type.Short, cute white girl. Curvy in.