I tried not to feel like a fool. Lincoln beamed a big smile at everyone. “Well, that is teamwork, I really must try this more often.” She stretched her arms over her head and arched her back, dropped her arms and looked at all of us. She waved us to the door of the space with a slight bow and followed us out. I went to the cargo deck to check the equipment; I did not want to talk to anyone. I was trying to work out how I was going to involve Petra in the assault without creating a bigger problem for everyone. I had felt her power only once and it had filled every cell in my body with something I had never realised that I was missing. I feel the ache now. Sometimes is becomes a blinding flash of desire that rises and fades in milliseconds, it still leaves an echo that can take days to fade

