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    She distantly heard Talia groan and shuffle her feet. “You’re digging yourself a deeper hole, why can’t you just try to be nice?”
    “Talia, no chastisements from you. You used to come before me for review for losing your temper and picking fights with our own men and women! You were the one that was as stubborn as a bloody terrier!”
    “My Lord, I request a private audience with Captain Kirkland. I’m sure I can talk some sense into her.”
    “Talk some sense into me? You can all go to hell. Go and select yourself another breeding machine, I will not have any part of this!”
    Talia walked toward her and grabbed her arm. Pulling her forward, she dragged her back to the room she shared with Mathias. “You need to learn how to pick your words.”
    “Pick my words? I’ve been abducted. My full duty is to try to escape at any costs.
    I will not sit back and mind my p’s and q’s and act like a bloody coward.”
    “Not a coward. You just don’t know the full of it. The Gaians aren’t our enemy. If anything, they should have been our allies during the war. You don’t understand how alike we are in our mind frames.”
    “We fought for the continuance of democracy for all … from what I’ve seen of the Gaians they live in a rigid society that doesn’t even allow their women to wear pants.”
    “Who the hell told you that? They allow you to wear pants, the translator just didn’t translate properly. The word it translates pants to is equivalent to our underwear.
    Of course they wouldn’t allow their women to walk in public wearing nothing but their underwear.”
    “Underwear?”
    “Yes. What sort of backward society did you think they were? The women have always been granted the same rights and freedoms as the men. In fact, they were the ones that the men consulted before going war. The women approved or denied military action.
    The Emperor has since approved a new counsel that includes the women that didn’t capitulate with Earth and other elected officials to fill the slots that the betrayers once held. They are a lovely society, and the men are very civilized. You should be proud to have been selected by Prince Aries.”
    “Do you need deprogramming? I think you’ve been taken in and brainwashed by these men.”
    “When was I ever vulnerable to brainwashing? Now really, Captain.”
    “I’ve just accomplished what some people never get to experience.”
    “What’s that, Captain?” Talia pushed her all the way into the quarters she shared with Mathias.
    “I’ve been thrust into an unthinkable situation. This scenario isn’t going to play out like a dramatization. This is real life … this state of affairs isn’t going to play out to Aries’s liking.”
    “You have to go along with it, Captain. You’ve been chosen, and, quite frankly, life on the Gaia home world is a lot better than life on Earth or any of its colonies.
    Honestly, why are you fighting this so much? You were never a rebel, except when it came to the side you fought on.”
    “We didn’t consider ourselves rebels, we were part of an ousted government.
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    Those buggers got a foothold on the senate, and it was all downhill from there on in.
    North America was doing fine without being put under the jurisdiction of the world government.”
    “I’ll agree wholeheartedly with that statement, Captain, but I won’t go along with anything else you’re saying.”
    “They kidnapped me! They hijacked the system again, and they took me without my permission!”
    “And that’s why you’re pitching this utter and total hissy fit?”
    “Well, of course it is. What have you been drinking or smoking? I was completely happy with my life as a Doorway to the Stars tour guide.”
    “No, you weren’t. Now you’re just blowing smoke out of your ass. You were miserable. The government had you chained to Earth because they had thrown your uncle in that stinking