Well, until recently, I didn’t. My sexual history is pretty standard, the uneasy gropings in high school trying to figure out how to give a proper h...andjob, not as easy as most boys think it is. Just ask us girls. Then the gropings turned more into eager exploration and, yes, couplings. I was fucking by the time I was a senior, on the pill, doing it every afternoon after school with a steady boyfriend. Two years of college saw numerous hook-ups, yes, lots of fun, nothing serious, just a lot of. Once the situation is defused, we will begin preparing them to serve us while we feed them more spice." Who else have you conned into going along with this absurd plan?" Conned? Absurd? Command Egulle, it really doesn't matter. For you see, in a few moments a message from Alliance of Worlds Central Command will arrive. It will relieve you of command. In your place, an outstanding Dutsuz commander will be appointed, as it should have been in the beginning." That will not happen," replied Egulle. . Now what was he going to find? It was going to cost, he could feel it. People didn’t realise what a struggle it was to keep a University going these days. In fact this whole situation was a direct result of needing money: the funding from that secretive Population Trust organisation that had foisted Claudia and Richard Davies on him with their nebulous activities. A geneticist and an anthropologist was an odd combination to share funding – he should have known something fishy would be going. "Now, you may recall this all appears to have started with a very simple robbery at the Garden Centre." The Great Detective picked up his enormous meerschaum pipe, stuffed the bowl with a large pinch of tobacco, and lit it blowing a stream of blue smoke across the room. "Why anyone should seek to steal an ornamental fruit tree was a puzzle for the local constabulary especially as it was not a case of simple shop lifting. They were, of course, worried by the violent attack on the young woman.