Near dawn the next day, the artillary had stopped. The silence was more frightening than the explosions around them. From that time until the first li...ghts from the sun, the quiet was deafening. Men talked just to hear sound.Then came the ground attack. The British scrambled to their defensive positions. Machine guns barked at the tens of thousands of Germans rushing toward their line. Artillary fell upon the attackers. The carnage was awful. Men by the hundreds were killed in just their first. The settlers deliberately eradicated all knowledge of the other worlds in their histories, and, not surprisingly, became isolated and regressed to a feudal society. The world was now roughly equivalent to the Dark Ages of Earth in its warlike nature and level of technology. The colonists were assumed in Confederation Intelligence to have perished very soon after their arrival, and the recent rediscovery of the planet and its inhabitants required careful handling. It was decided that no contact. Instead, I saw her with her shirt held together talking to some stranger. She leaned over and told me he wanted to see her boobs. I told her to not let me stop her. After some of the things that I have seen her do in the last year, I didn’t know what to expect when she turned back to the guy. Her back was to me, so I didn’t see for sure what she did, but it was a little too quick to have shown her tits. What I did see was her shirt opening up and going close pretty fast. Damned, I was hoping. Ashleigh Miller lifted her hand from the mic cue and sighed. She took a step back and walked over to the table holding twin bingo machines that sat in the corner of the school office. Kneeling down, she opened the cabinet tucked underneath and pulled out two little wooden balls with the names Valerie Arians and Jason Jones etched into them. She closed the cabinet and stood up. As she put Valeries ball in the rightmost bingo machine, she murmured Sorry Val. After placing Jasons in the leftmost,.