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Afterward, I feel the need to stay busy to keep the thoughts at bay I get up and dress, leavingon the sleepdisk, sated expressions on their faces, and head tobench

“I’ve been working on so new” I pick upthe wires and metal I co blue and silver digital map, and frown The layout is acceptable, but I think I could reduce the a capacitor over—

“What is that?” Gorde, ever attentive, glances over

“It’s a phaser” I flush

“What do you know about those?” His voice holds nothing negative—no conteer It’s just a question, but to answer it requires information I can’t quite explain

“Nothing, when I started” I put it down “Drayn showedjust clicked in ether So, because I need to do so, I offered to try and improve it”

“But in your past you never did any tech work, right?” Gorde gets up and saunters over I catch my breath at his naked torso, his cock ihs powerful

“You knoas a sex slave” I look back at the device in my hands “No, I never had the chance”

“And yet you”—he pauses He knows I don’t like discussing my past Refuse to—“have already learned to cipher?” his voice holds surprise

I stick up my chin I adoing to discuss that fact with iven the chance Yes I did learn to cipher”

“By the stars,” he muses, ad it takes Zandian children?”

“I’ my belly

“I know that It’s just re with no experience can do it so quickly” There’s so in his tone I can’t quite place

“Are you jealous?” I tease “Feeling threatened by the clever little human?” I flip the device “Who can learn Zandian tech so quickly that it makes you worried?”

He crosses his arms “Threatened by a human? Not likely” He scoffs But then he touches my arm and his expression softens “And you amaze me—us, every day Absolutely”