Sholan Alliance BK 3

Chapter 12 - What the hell did that?

Crystal and Kingie had settled into his room after the two of them had that dinner. It had been hard for her to do more than simply sleep next to him but damn it she did want more. Even if she had been raped and abused by those bastards on that ship she was still a young woman. She did have urges, wants, and needs and right now she wanted Kingie in a bad way. She had been talking to the therapists about how best to deal with this. Their consensus was if she didn't feel like she was using him to feel whole again then take it easy and ask him.

She did understand since they had been very clear about some people turning to their rescuers as a crutch to feel somewhat alive. Crystal hadn't known Kingie before he had saved her. She had latched onto him as someone who she felt would protect her so she didn't think it was that. At the moment, she was back in the garden which she had grown to love. It helped keep her calm and allowed her to think. Why that was she didn't know but it was such a lovely place.

While she was out there. Amahs came out and settled in the chair next to Crystal and relaxed, "What are you thinking Crystal? I could smell you were tense when I came home from school. You were also smelling scared and somewhat..." She couldn't really describe the emotion.

Crystal made room for her and wrapped an arm around the younger girl as she curled up next to her. When Amahs asked her what she was thinking she didn't even blush. She had been thinking about it enough recently that it wasn't an issue to stress over, or so she hoped. She tried to consider the best way to reply and finally did, "I guess you could say in a way I'm starting to come into my first heat sort of like India. It isn't the same for humans but it is the best description. I care for Kingie a great deal but with what happened I'm scared."

Amahs had sort of figured that out since Crystal was close to the age most Sholan females went into heat. She loved her brother but the idea that someone might find him interesting in that way made her want to shudder, "Oh... Um, well... Okay." Now she wished she hadn't asked.

That was almost what Crystal needed from her and she sniggered at Amahs, "Not sure what to say about someone finding your brother interesting huh?" She sighed and gave the girl a light hug, "I know it is a horrible thought but Kingie is a very wonderful person and he has done so much for me. I made it hard for him at times but he stuck with me. I can't think of anyone I might be interested in more than him."

Amahs gave Crystal a hug since she had talked to both her brother and her parents. They had been careful with what they had said. Between what little Crystal had told her and what they said she could read between the lines, "Then talk to him Crystal. I am sure he will understand your fears and worries. He is a pretty good older brother."

Crystal wished it was that easy but to her it wasn't. She needed to do more thinking on the subject before anything might even happen, "Why don't you go inside Amahs? I need to do some more thinking." She gave the girl a hug before urging her out of the chair they were in.

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Billy was again in the design office and for the moment he was just with what he had started calling his team. While they were still working on the engine design he was thinking of the pirate ship. He had the original schematics for. They were the ship builder's designs and he knew there were going to be major changes. He had sent a request for all available details the search of the ship had found. The requested information had been received just a few days ago. That might take a bit of time to get it cleared through the various agencies involved. Z'Marl was doing some low level design with the others since most of it was just data entry.

On the main holotable he had the wire design for the ship. Using the information, he had from the inspection of the ship he could note the physical changes. That would allow him to make some guesses on some other changes. Though he couldn't guarantee it, the engine was probably going to the original. Replacing either the n-space or hyper engines was a massive project. Even for a corvette like this it would require removing large sections of the hull and internal compartments. Going with that he was going to do some basic redesign of the engines. For this he could use many of the original modifications to the Sandi.