And after we both catch up on our oxygen, I'll release enough so he can start sliding out a little, then back in, then all the way out and slamming ba...ck in, as I tell him about the next load I took, and in what hole, and how I immediately felt so fulfilled being given all those love juices. Sort of a feeling inside me that now I was a real woman, fulfilling the purpose of every lifeform on the planet; to procreate, to cherish the thick love juices filled with five hundred million little. “Fivcheer and I can’t wait to feel his mind when he sees this ship.”Har-Hi was even redder than usual. “How did you know this lowly crewman in the first place? I wonder if that poor soul is no being questioned by his superior how he managed to have contact with you.”“Get serious guys, we are lifting off for combat action. We need to get this thing in space. SHIP have you made contact with the big ships AI?”“Yes, Captain. I am able to convey all your ship commands via our bridge.”“Prepare for. Perhaps if things had been different, she would have had a happier life and maybe she would not have turned out as she did. Looking back I could see some of the selfish tendencies that I missed before. We would have at least been friends, but who knows how things would have turned out between us.Celka was the last person who my mind turned to. I found myself wishing that her life had not been snuffed out as it had been. She deserved better than that and I hoped that our visit to her home would. With the heavy-heavy hanging over their heads—as they saw it, anyway—they couldn't afford to make anything public; no more media stories. I was pretty sure they wouldn't even risk circulating privately along police channels, they'd be too worried I'd learn of it and publish their dirty little secrets, or at least some of them, as I'd threatened.I'd isolated them the same way they'd initially isolated me. Which suited me fine, it was what I'd intended.What we had was an old-fashioned Mexican.