She needled with jabs at his barriers.To prevent outside interference, he got up, walked to the door and closed it. It came as no surprise to him he c...ould do this while they dueled. Yet she seemed unable to deal with physical movement while engaged in the mind battle. He sought about for any distraction to cause her attack to slow down. He needed to resume his own.She furiously surged energy waves of thought at him. He could make out crude control symbols in her attack, but couldn't do much. "OK, Wildebeest, back off for now. My ship is calling me." Carefully he began to extricate himself, making sure the native—as well as the other two they'd enlisted to restrain the animal—were likewise clear.Meanwhile his brusque reply had set Miller into a rant. "What do you mean, wait! Sergeant, you answer me right now, you hear me? Sergeant! Sergeant, this is your commanding officer, when I speak to you, you fucking jump to attention! Sergeant! Goddammit—" Yes, sir," Zo finally answered.. ”“Okay,” I said, “remember that chat our Mums had with us, back at the beginning?”She nodded, and her eyes clouded over.“So, then, which of those principles have you broken so far?”She looked at me aghast.“The one about being open and honest with each other,” she answered.I nodded.“So, week three then?” I prompted.“Yes,” she said, a lot of her usual confidence seemed to have deserted her at this point, “I suppose week three was when it started.”“So soon after you left?”“No, I don’t mean. .. Ich hatte jetzt schon einen Halbsteifen. Ich stieg aus und ging die Straße entlang, schaute mich um als ob mich jemand verfolgt, was natürlich quatsch war.Da war das Klingelsc***d. Ich drückte den Knopf. Es dauerte nicht lange und der Summer ging und ich drückte die Tür auf.Seine Wohnung war ganz oben. Als ich angekommen war machte er auch schon die Tür auf. "Hey, komm doch rein" Danke" Lass uns direkt ins Wohnzimmer gehen"Wir setzten uns auf die Couch. Unterhielten uns kurz und rauchten.