Kingie helps the women
When Billy suddenly dashed off he glanced at his communicator and his mouth opened in a very pleased smile, "Yilly is going to be distracted for a while. His Leska is in labor. Come with me and we'll get you settled in and start explaining things to you. Wait on the questions until we get you into your suite." One of the women had started to ask a question when he spoke.
Crystal looked very pleased with the news. She had picked up a small bracelet for their baby and couldn't wait to see everyone, "The suites are really nice. Lap of luxury and all that good stuff." It only took a few moments to make it to the suites. While Kingie was getting the suites to recognize their palms she was catching up with the women.
When they finally walked in she went straight to the dispenser and dialed up a number of drinks, "Can someone help me please?" She had noticed each warrior seemed to have selected one woman to keep an eye on, "This is a drink Billy loves. It is a mixture of coffee and c'shar. Not strong enough to get the Warrior's tipsy though full strength coffee will."
Bitty finally looked at the two, "Leska? Pregnant? What do you mean?" She couldn't remember if anyone said anything about it.
Kingie settled down at the table with the coffee, "He has a mental link with Satasha. I can't tell you much but It caused genetic changes. You have been immunized against the virus so you are safe. For more information please ask Yilly when he comes past to talk to you. It will be after your indoc." They hadn't received the message about Teo, Ike, or Amanda yet.
When they door buzzed, he activated the door, "Come in mentor, this is one of the telepath guild's mentor's. He has some bracelets which you will need to wear. It is a telepathic damper. It will keep others from picking up your thoughts and especially your emotions."
In these quarters, it wasn't a problem but when they were going to the medical center it could disturb the students. Even just sitting in here the Mentor could feel the impact. When they finally started going to town and wandering the grounds they would need it as well.
Crystal held her wrist up and had a very similar looking device, "It also acts as a communicator. We can show you that later. Since she knew how to use them she took them from the mentor and placed them around each of the women's wrist. Once they were on she showed them how to use it, "I leave it all the way up. It won't impact on you but keep you from impacting those around you." She looked strained, "The first few months were hard and brought back many memories. The students can feel them and it is very distressing for them."
Savannah wiggled it around slightly before she leaned against her warrior. The idea of having to remember even some of what they had experienced scared her badly, "I don't want to remember. I want to forget and never have to think about it again."
All the warriors had been trained how to deal with the women when they started to panic. He quickly pulled a autoinjector out and gave her a dose of medication to calm her down, "We are here for you. You can do it. Remember that most scary of things, a human female. You can do it." He pulled her against him as the medications hit.
Crystal didn't approach Savannah, "It was horrible. I won't lie about that but between them and Kingie I am getting better. His family is helping as well. Let's show you around and then let you relax." She was going to need to leave soon herself and hoped she wasn't going to need any of her medications.
Kingie looked at the warriors, "How you decide to divvy up the rooms is up to you. Tomorrow the mentor is going to come by in the morning and start your indoc. It was decided it would be easier on you to do it here. If you don't mind I am taking Crystal at home. Much like Savannah, this is bringing back memories. Your warriors can show you how to use everything. The main number to the Embassy and the Estates are in the terminal." He wrapped an arm around Crystal and led her out of the suite and quickly took her home. Tonight, it was to his parent's house.
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Dani talks to Billy about the bonding
Billy had taken several days off to stay with Satasha and their baby but he simply couldn't take too much time off. What he had decided was to work mornings with the design board and from his office at the estates in the afternoon. He could take breaks and spend time with Satasha and their baby. Z'Marl was going to be remaining with her as much as possible. He needed her to help with the engine designs unfortunately. Crystal was going to be doing her schooling from the estates so she could help. Satasha's mother was spending time as were her siblings.
He was so glad they had a good group of people to help her. He felt bad but this work had to be done. It was going to be vital to the survival of the planet. Thankfully the engine was far enough along he could start to focus on some new shields. Those he could work on from home. They needed to be upgraded as well.
The balance of the work on the engine he had finally handed over to several who had come on the pirate ship and the Sandi. The Sholan Design Board was going to be assisting as much as possible. He did have a great deal of heartburn over Jinjow working on the engine design. It had to be done since they didn't have much of a choice. The entire world needed the engines. He had stipulated the patents belonged to him and he was getting royalties. There just wasn't much he could really do to keep the modifications secret.
It was also not in earth's best interest to keep it secret. He had the jump on the technology but the more ships they could retrofit and upgrade the better it would be. It would buy them time to get new ships designed and in production. That part he didn't have a hand in since it was simply too large a project and not his specialty. He would leave that to the various WDB's on Earth. Once he had the final version of the engine done he could take a short break from that.
With the shields, they were going to be built on earth as well though he was going to design them. What he should say was review and revise the math. Some aspects he could do but much would have to be done on earth. The shields needed to be adjusted and modified for each class of ship. Unlike the engines, you couldn't just scale them up and call it good. It would depend on the size of the ship, locations of weapon's ports, landing bays and the purpose of the vessel.
