Aisha was too busy pushing Jim into her bosom to notice the bathroom door opening. Jim could only see Aisha's big bosom. Two of the fleshy globes of the cat-girl were bigger than Jim's head combined. Jim was in danger of suffocating when Paige stepped up to her bed and yelled "What do you think you're doing with my slave?!"
Aisha and Jim looked up to see Paige glaring at them both in her bed. Paige was feeling a mixture of anger and resentment. Aisha had lost Jim fair and square...so why did she come to her room? Was the commander about to finish Jim off by eating him? Paige saw that the commander had been suffocating Jim with her bosom....and she thought the commander liked to eat raw Terran. Jim tried to disentangle himself from Aisha, but Aisha was holding onto him with an iron-clad grip. Paige glared, and waited for an answer to her question.
"I was just checking to see if your slave was behaving" said Aisha. "why else would I come back here?"
Paige looked unconvinced.
"I want you to get out of here and never bother with Jim again" snarled Paige.
"Ohh....so you are brave after all to order me around" said Aisha. "actually, I came back here to tell you what a good job you two did on the engines today. If you're lucky, you might get a promotion"
"P-Promotion?" stammered Paige.
"Yes" said Aisha. "you see, we're tracking down a Terran vessel, and without our engines, we couldn't follow that 'Maiden's Virture'"
"Like any commander would waste time on that" said Paige. "you just came back here to further tournment Jim. Well, he's no longer your slave, so you can't terrorize him anymore"
"Paige, it's alright" said Jim. "my former mistress wanted to say goodbye"
"SHE WAS SUFFOCATING YOU!" yelled Paige, and she blushed.
"That's her way of saying good-bye" said Jim. In the past, Aisha would wish Jim a good night and promised to eat any scary monsters that came after Jim in the night. This would be followed by a bear hug that forced Jim's head between Aisha's fun bags. Being hugged by a Ctarl-Ctarl could be dangerous.
"Funny way to say good-bye" said Paige dryly.
"Paige" said Aisha. "I just had a thought. Why not we.."
"Commander Aisha" shouted a male voice on the ship-wide intercom. "come in" Aisha sighed and answered the intercom.
"This had better be important, Mr. Christian" said Aisha, for the voice belonged to Christian Thomas, one of the slaves to the navigator. The fact that a slave was on the intercom was very unusual.
"It is, ma'am" said Chris. "we're under attack!"
"Gyyyaugh?!" asked Aisha and Paige at the same time.
"Who would dare attack the Orta Hone-Hone?" asked Aisha.
"It's a small ship" said Christian. Suddenly, the whole ship jerked back and forth violently.
"I'm on my way to the bridge" said Aisha.