Al Norris

So we get this mini-cliffy? We have to wait for the first meeting between Adam and Kai? While you go gallivanting off with some of your characters? My, my, my! 🤭

I have always found it strange how many people love to use the beach for various types of fun, including swimming. Yet most of them know nothing about how to extricate themselves from a rip. In my youth, I helped a couple of friends, on surfboards(!), who got caught. I'm still here, so I guess we made it out of the rip.

Hrumph... We must not be hasty, here...

@vanalas, I just stumbled upon this story. I have read nothing else from you. Now I'm sitting here with tears running down my face... Unthinkable with the Grinch avatar I've chosen. Beautiful chapter, sir. Beautiful.

When Red was discharged, his boyfriend met him. Red hadn't told me about his boyfriend and his boyfriend hadn't been told about me. Red went home alone.

Why do I get the impression that as soon as Kai gets to the house, he will have to try out his bed... With Adam?

There was one redhead when I lived down in San Diego...

Assuming the obvious, Ahmed is Muslim. Depending upon the sect, he would be disinherited and his line stricken from the family, at the very least. Otherwise, he would be dead, by rather crude and vile means, publically.

It's a ship... It's called a screw. For more reasons than one! In the real world, they likely would have never met. Now, their lives hang by a thread.

First, they will need to escape their current prison! I wonder who Marta really is?

I would have hoped they also imported swine. A society without bacon is truly in decline! Yes, even I am leaning towards Bzup being one of the actual Aliens. @Geron Kees is at his best!

OK, you confused me... Who is David? Did you mean his Dad, Peter? Anyway, Scott and Justin are now together and it appears that Scott has come to grips with his feelings towards Justin.

Said Frodo to Samwise... 🤣🤣🤣

The chapter was, um, Spicey?! I can hardly wait until all four of these characters meet each other! That ought to provide for a week's worth of downright laughter!!!

On the premise that Bzup is an organic AI drone, that blast of sound was a report of everything it had learned.

I can just imagine what the bureaucrats are going to say. I would have four words for them: Sadler's Pleasure Teddy Bears. If they were at all competent, that phrase would stop them in their tracks. At least until it could be established if the creature was intelligent or not. My best guess is that the creature is an AI. The real Aliens can give it instructions and it can operate from that point on to fulfill its imperatives. We've already seen that humans have mechanical drones with AI. It would not be a stretch to think that the Aliens might have the same, but biological instead of mechanical. Unless, of course, Bzup is an Alien! Unlikely, but there you are.

Purple People Eater?

IIRC, human speech is within the creature's auditory range. Whether this is actual communication remains to be seen. We don't even know why Jem and no one else!

I absolutely loved this chapter! I used the laughing icon for the chapter since it evoked that feeling in me as I read what Kai and Adam spoke to each other. There was so much joy and playfulness that came through!

A good friend of mine has said: "Without darkness, the light has no meaning." The concept is almost impossible to understand for those who have only stood in the light. You get a one-sided view of the world. It becomes easy to gain-say all that is truly evil, simply because you don't know the darkness of the world. Andrew has now seen a portion of this darkness. Regardless of what others may think, this has opened his eyes. Yes, he is writing his book to fuel his own ego, much the same as Mr. Black allowed Andrew to see the world he lives in. My worry for Matt is not that he will lose his virginity, but that his owner is not overly endowed - holding out the hope that Matt will be "rescued." That trauma may lead Matt to believe all anal intercourse will be the same. The longer Matt is a slave, the more his views of sex will be perverted. It may become impossible to view sex in any other manner.

People say many things to justify what they do and who they are. Throughout history, slavery (human trafficking) has been a known economic activity. That's a reality that Western Civilization does not want to admit. Despite the Scottish Enlightenment (that gave rise to our current culture), the rest of the world does not agree with our sensibilities.

This is, um, Bizarre... Yeah, that's the word! There is something about Jem that is unique to him and him alone. Nita and Deera need to closely examine Jem to find that uniqueness.

Perhaps not lead them... But even at my advanced age, um, Jem checks those boxes!!!

The next line would have been: "What? You wanted Adam to fuck you first?"

I can just see this Doc, the first time he meets Adam with Kai: "Kai? You fuck him yet? What the hell you waiting for?" Loved the chapter!