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loud.
    The other three Guardians were sitting around and far more casually than she had imagined. They were wearing their trousers and some tattoos, nothing more.
    “Uh, I don’t know why you brought me here, but this isn’t really my thing.” She squirmed, and he still refused to let her down, so she bent her fingers and stabbed him in the solar plexus with her knuckles.
    He dropped her on her ass as the breath whooshed out of him. The other three burst out laughing as she got to her feet and dusted her butt off.
    To her mortification, Toyo opened the heavily reinforced jacket of his uniform and rubbed the skin of his chest where she had jabbed him. He continued to remove his uniform until he was only wearing trousers and boots as well.
    She didn’t know where to look.
    The other three Guardians were killing themselves with laughter.
    Toyo put his clothing on a nearby table and lifted her chin. “Yes, innocence is definitely in there. Again, nothing will happen to you here. You are simply our guest because I forgot to give you the assault waiver.”
    She nodded and turned toward the others.
    Rand cleared his throat. “Come and sit with us. We are watching a documentary about your species.”
    Toyo looked at him. “There is a vid on the Terrans?”
    Drovin nodded enthusiastically. “It is about the first Terran Champions. All women.”
    Loesh smiled, “Join us, we can restart it.”
    Toyo stretched. “No, go ahead without me. I need to do some sparring.”
    Bebe took the seat on the couch a few cushions away from Rand, and he resumed play on the vid.
    As she watched them, she could see that they were fascinated by the stories being told, especially about the Admar inheritor, Sarah Marks. Bebe couldn’t imagine an entire planet at her disposal, but she could clearly see the fixation that the Guardians had on the Champion and her mate.
    They remained fixated until the end of the vid, and then, they turned to Bebe.
    Drovin asked. “Do all Terran females have talents?”
    “No. The first round of Volunteers had quite a few because that’s what the recruiters were screening for. The second round is more aptitude for adaptation, like me.”
    Loesh narrowed his eyes. “How did you learn you had an aptitude?”
    “I didn’t. When I was little, my father would bring home details from his cases that no one had solved, and he let me look into the puzzles until I was able to point him in the right investigative direction. When my brother entered law enforcement, I continued with the puzzles.”
    Drovin looked impressed. “How did you come to be a Volunteer?”
    “My brother volunteered me. He put forward my plan to find the terrorists attacking the Volunteer Centres and that got him attention, which he passed on to me. At home, I always had to go through someone to solve anything or make a difference. Here, I file my reports and they are acted on. It is a little bit gratifying.”
    Her stomach rumbled and they looked at her in surprise. She bit her lip. “Can I get something to eat? When everything hit the fan this morning, I was out shopping and I never did get breakfast.”
    Rand got to his feet. “And of course the holding cells don’t provide food to aliens. Come with me.”
    She made a face and followed him into the huge kitchen.
    The other two trailed after them, still curious.
    Loesh asked baldly, “So your species doesn’t have sex outside of life mates?”
    She paused. “Some folks do, some folks don’t.”
    Drovin grinned. “Which category are you?”
    Her jaw should have hit the counter, but she calmly said, “I assess it on a case-by-case basis. To date, there has been no reason to exert myself in that arena.”
    Rand turned and looked at her in shock. “What?”
    She crossed her arms over her chest. “I don’t get out much.”
    Celibacy was the one thing guaranteed to stop a W’lyn Guardian in his tracks. They just didn’t know how to process it.
    She cleared her throat. “If you just step