"Okay," she eventually said, as though it was a torture and she didn't at all mean it.I opened the door, entered her room, and closed the door behind ...me, though I hung back by the door.She was in bed and dressed for it in a long t-shirt. The covers were kicked down and she was sitting up reading. Her knees were bent but she quickly lowered her legs flat and tugged down the hem of her shirt. My sister had really lovely legs, and I tried not to look at them. "Well?" she stared me in the eyes."May. Get them together and determine what they can carry. I’ll check with the medical people. Have all of you received the planetary briefing?” I asked.“We all received it on our PDUs, but I don’t know how many actually read it or understood it,” Tyler told me.“Check that out,” I told him before turning back to Hanson.“Did you and the other Marine receive the planetary briefing?” I asked.“No Top, we arrived on the heavy cruiser ‘Benjamin Franklin’ several days ago with three destroyers. Most of our. CRAACKK!The first stroke was across her shoulders and the pain was beyond anything Elaheh had ever imagined in her worst nightmares. She lost control of her body and urine ran down her legs unnoticed in her agony. She could not breathe for some seconds and then she let out a long wail of despair, much to the delight of the spectators.Hameez walked up and down behind her bowing to the crowd and flexing his muscles. He ran a hand down from her shoulder across the bloody mark where the skin had. Playing their way through the world as equals was part of what made it work for them, though. Hopefully Akilah would see that on her own, and grow to be a strong-willed woman herself. She’d need it to fight the prejudice stacked against her.“So what do we do now?” Akilah asked, finding herself in an awkward position of having someone insisting on doing her bidding for her, and not really knowing what to do.“Well, we have nothing to do really, so lets have sex.” George said with a smirk. George,.