This was fine with Zyl, because she had wanted to sample my sexual prowess after hearing all about it from Anfon. Anfon and Zyl had been friends befor...e they had been recruited into the Galactic Rangers, so they had complete confidence in each other.Their plan, I had nothing to say about it, was that Anfon would sleep with me whenever she and I were at the base at the same time, but Zyl would sleep with me whenever Anfon was out on assignment. Zyl had a permanent assignment to the base,. Mom was preparing breakfast. The boys were still in bed. I came up behind her and hugged her. She jumped. I said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."She acknowledged me self-consciously and turned back to laying strips of bacon in the pan. She said, "You are surprising me a lot lately." Yeah, I guess I am. Sorry." After a pause, I said, "You are looking really great lately, Mom."She turned and studied me suspiciously. She said, "Just what do you mean by that?" No, I'm serious. You really do. .Do you know me? Who...I think I used tobe?"That was what had surprised the Wizard. Thirty years in another life, andstill she remembered."I know you. It's unusual that you remember. You...she was only five andit has been..." Thirty years. Thirty years ago today, in fact." A five year old brain can't hold all the memories of forty-two years." Not all, but enough. First record, Ed Sullivan, the Army, marriage, LasVegas..." ...and a midnight visit to a run down pawn shop on Beale Street?"She. Better to have it over with quickly, than be in this state of torturous uncertainty. She asked him, ‘W-will… will you take me now?’ Ritheus did not look up from the map, but said, ‘No.’ Zura could not believe her ears. He must be joking, playing at a cruel jest. She was certain nearly half his army had known the flesh of either her or one of the other girls of her village, during and after the attack. They were savage barbarians, it was in their very nature to rape and pillage, plunder and.