The three of us went to work cleaning up the blood and other fluids, then Wynne ran a quick scan over Riana's belly and the bundled baby, declaring bo...th to be healthy.Leliana stayed with Riana and the baby, and I accompanied Wynne to talk to Gorim."They are both fine," she said, and Gorim took a big breath of relief. "The baby was turned the wrong way, but I was able to turn her; unfortunately, it caused significant bleeding. I've healed her, and she's safe now, but she lost a lot of blood.. Something to do with basing?”“Yes. The new job just started this weekend. I’ve got a major problem in pickup procedures and I am hoping that you can help me fix it, at least for my own colony’s pickups. Currently, the Marines collect a few volunteers at a time and send them up to a ship. If you have, say, twenty pickup teams and each gets five volunteers per trip and one trip per day, you get one hundred volunteers per day. Now with the early ships holding just ninety-six pods, that means just. ”“OK, my plan is to take you back to my house and fuck you.”She is startled, she might have a general idea of what I was after, but she didn’t expect to hear it so bluntly.She puts her hand to her mouth and walks away from me, going back to her group.She and the other older woman have a heated whispering discussion. They keep looking at me, worrying that I am going to approach them and make a scene. I stand and smile at them. I know the process they are going through. Initially they are. There was no resistance until the invaders had fallen back to the knee, once there they refused to budge. A truce was called on the condition that all hostilities would cease and the delectable approach to the mound became a designated no-digit-land. The control center was not satisfied and thought the truce was precarious at best but the mound relishing the titillating signals from the knee thought it would be safe to enjoy them because of the truce and managed to appeased central.