Paper is patient. It does not expect you to fill it quickly nor is it angry when you decide to do so. It waits for years in a drawer with other sheets to be read or swiftly glanced at before being put back into the darkness ready to wait for a decade or more.
Paper was calm and never judged and that was what Kitty liked about it. Holo-displays on the other hand always had something fast-paced. They were eager to be seen and just disappeared when they weren't needed. That might leave you with more storage space, but it also didn't have this tranquility that paper always had for her.
Humans almost never used paper, which made it odd as Powers handed everyone a sheet of it, written in the language of her people, with the most important information on it.
"As you see we still try to process the immense amount of intel, but this was maybe war-deciding." Powers was in the middle of the conference room talking to the panel consisting of her, the chief, and two of the three elders Angela and Jeremiah.
Peg had skipped the meeting due to not feeling well. Kitty couldn't blame her for that, if her son was missing she probably also didn't have the mental capacity to join any meetings.
"We have detailed information about the number of troops, their gear, and where they are or are supposed to be." Powers meant and gave them a little time to read into the material.
He was right, what they had in their hands was an exact list of all the mentioned and more. Kitty looked surprised at the numbers she saw. She could remember that at the beginning of the invasions, the lizards had whole armies that swept over the land. She estimated back then that a few million of them must have come down to earth to ravage their home.
The number she read now was almost puny compared to that. Only 10,000 soldiers were stationed in 10 outposts that were spread all over the globe.
Also, just two of their mother ships, these gigantic ships that bombed everything to bits that wasn't a mountain after the first wave of smaller ships had released their purple-colored bombs. She was thankful that the bunker was not a more exposed one.
"We even found a ship that is capable of bringing us all off the planet." With a gesture, the captain asked them to turn the page around. "It's a freighter and even if it does not look sturdy it has the capability to lift us."
"I am still not a fan of that." The chief huffed angrily. He and Powers had not a single conversation that wasn't full of spite since they revealed the plan to flee. "I still think we can get our world back."
"Well, let me show you something." Powers started a holo projection of the earth in the middle of the room. Reduced the earth's size further and further until the sun was the dominating celestial body. He zoomed out further until a cluster of stars became visible.
"We are here." He pointed at one of the stars. "The next military base of the lizards is here, 3 parsecs away." He pointed at another star. "If we interpreted the technical data correctly, and I have no doubt about it, then we can assume that the lizards can travel with a speed of 0.5 parsecs per day which means..."
"Assuming that they can ready their troops in about one or two days they could be here in about a week," Jeremiah called in for the first time Powers and the chief looked surprised at him. "I was a logistics specialist back in my days." The pitbull replied and huffed.
"And this is a pretty good estimation, Sir." Powers nodded acknowledgingly to the dog. "So, Mr. Dumbrowski, please belief me when I say that our situation is kind of helpless in that regard."
Powers turned the projection off and looked at the group. Kitty raised her hand.
"Yes?"
"Do you have any intel about the explosion that happened tonight?"
"Yes, I wanted to talk about that." Powers said. "This explosion was one of the two motherships detonating in the atmosphere to a yet unknown reason… and although the enemy has received a tremendous hit through that, it leads to a problem."
"What do you mean?" Kitty inquired and leaned tensely forward in her chair.
"The lizards probably haven't taken any rebellious endeavors on this planet seriously, until now. There is no doubt in my mind that now their fleet command will react seeing that something is afoot. This incident forced their hand, and by that, they are forcing ours."
The members of the panel started murmuring confused to each other, speculation about what should be the next step or if there is even something that could be done.
Powers cleared his throat and then said. "We aren't left with much choice here, actually with just one and I like to propose a plan to proceed from there on."
Powers walked closer to the table and said firmly. "We ready the troops. Everybody who can carry a weapon should be handed one. We take two days to train our striking force starting this noon. After the two days, and hopefully, with enough time buffer before the lizard's reinforcement arrives, we attack the airfield and steal the freighter."
"Ah, so you want to murder us." The chief nodded.
"Not in the slightest." Powers said and crossed his arms behind his back.
"Chief, I don't like to say it but… do we really have a another choice?" Kitty leaned over to the chief and whispered these words.
"Kitty, we are like 100 survivors plus seven humans against about 2,000 lizards." He said with an annoyed tone in his voice. "How should that work?"
"This isn't planned as a frontal attack." Powers quickly intervened with an explanation. "Just a part of our forces will engage the enemy directly. For the others, I have a handful of special missions to ensure our enemy will lose land, air, and orbital superiority."
"Okay then explain this pl…"
Voices outside the room grew louder once again and a known female voice called. "Stop ogling and let us through!"
Powers ears perked up hearing this voice and also Kitty turned startled to the door. She sighed one of her greatest sigh of relief as not only Dudley but also Rob and Kate entered the room just seeming to have incurred only minor injuries. But something was off about them, and she saw it just after Sly was already staring at it.
"No…" The usually hoarse voice suddenly sounded soft as he stepped closer to Dudley who had placed what he was carrying on the ground. "Renè… what happened."
Dudley looked at Sly who knelt next to René. His eyes were red, and he said barely clinging to his composure like he was hanging over a cliff. "The lizard's captain… René had his shield down… he detonated a…"
Powers stood up from his knee and laid his hands on Dudley's shoulders and at this moment his fingers released the edge of composure. The dog started sobbing uncontrollably his mouth released a few incomprehensible sounds that had their origin in deep grief.
"Hey honey." Rob had moved to her and greeted her with a quick hug. Kitty almost stared through him at Dudley who let his pain run free.
"He finally stopped bottling it up." The wolf said and looked concerned at the scene. "He was so quiet the whole way…"
"Rob what has happened… where exactly were you?"
"Well…" The wolf started summarizing the last night in quick sentences while the rest of the group had their ears listening to him but their eyes on Dudley. "And after that, we got back here by foot."
"Are you trying to tell us that the four of you, alone… I can't stress that enough, ALONE, have taken down a mothership." The chief walked to Rob and Kitty and stared in complete disbelief at the wolf.
"Well not intentionally…" Rob shrugged. "But Dudley said we would probably not get off board if we don't do something against their ships artillery."
"The destructive approach… sounds like agent Puppy." The chief shook his head and looked back at the dog who had regained a basic composure. He had shaken off Captain Powers' hands by now and just stared at the corpse he had carried with a hand in front of his mouth.
The two started speaking but it seemed someone had switched off the translator. Kitty realized that as she could still understand the words but the people around her looked quite puzzled at Dudley.
"I can't Sly… I can't even…" The dog stammered. "If I had ordered him to stay here…"
"I know Dudley I know..." Sighed Powers and his voice sounded like coming from a place of grim experience. "I think the best thing is that you take a few hours off. Go into the shuttle and sleep a little."
"No I… I need...there's still stuff…" Dudley wanted to say but Powers laid his hand on his shoulder in a way he usually doesn't do that: gently.
"You need to rest. I don't want to lose you too just because you can't think straight."
Dudley looked into Powers' face and nodded tiredly before leaving the room his head hanging low.
"Wow…" Powers said after Dudley closed the door and looked over to Kate. "I know he sometimes has his outbursts but…"
"I think matters are different with René." Kate sighed and looked down at the engineer.
"Indeed, but he didn't even cry when he heard that about Juliette for example and there were rumors that they were dating." Powers let his fingers glide through his hair and also looked down at the corpse.
"René was almost like Dudley's shadow sometimes…" Mumbled the tick and lifted the engineer up. "We shouldn't let him lie down here, we…" At this moment, like she smelt a certain scent in the air, Kate turned around and looked Kitty straight in the face. "You know that it is considered rude to eavesdrop?" she asked and her usual sarcastic voice was just full of cold sternness.
"I'm sorry… I don't have much of a choice." Kitty pointed apologetically at her ears.
"Kate it's okay, bring René to Isaac and tell him… Tell him he should find a place for him." She nodded and left the room gently carrying her crewmate.
Powers turned to Kitty and for a moment the professional façade he always put up when they were speaking crumbled. "He really worries me lately… I've never seen him that shaken."
"Me… neither Mr. Powers."
"Once again, Sly." He briefly said.
"Well… I saw him die back then but he didn't have such an explosive…"
"As Kate said, René was close to him…" Powers interjected powerlessly. "And the rest of the circumstances doesn't make it easier for him either… I usually wouldn't ask that of you but could you, after he has slept, maybe talk with him?"
"I don't know if my presence is the best remedy right now," Kitty said and Rob looked at her. He just understood her side of the conversation but seemed to figure the rest of it out by himself.
"I agree but… I do not have any real counselor here to give him some psychological support. And I wouldn't ask if I had a better choice." Powers explained.
"Sly I really don't think…"
"Kitty, I maybe just get half of it but…" Rob slowly raised his voice. "You should really talk to him, as much as I hate the thought."
"You guys don't understand we… I don't know what will happen if we talk."
Rob growled and said. "I know that… but we need him…"
Kitty looked confused at Rob, did he really pick up what she put down there? Kitty knew everything could happen when she and Dudley talked, but she still didn't arrive at the point where she was completely sure about what she felt for him. And although it was the most pragmatistic decision at that moment, Kitty felt a little hurt that Rob even suggested that.
"Fine." Kitty sighed. "I will go see him."
"Thank you." Powers nodded, then the translator was switched on again and the captain started to wrap up the briefing.
"In the meantime, we should go home." Said Rob and laid his arm around her but Kitty just huffed.
"I will go and see Nick in the meantime." She said, freed herself from his arm, and left the room searching for her son. The problem in that regard was just that she didn't know where Nick was right now. Kitty took a moment to think where he could be and then decided to head to the cafeteria first.
It was time for dinner anyway. It took her a quick glance in the almost empty cafeteria to realize that he wasn't there. Maybe he was with his grandma? Nick didn't spend much time with Peg lately, Kitty blamed puberty for that. The family gets just less interesting the more the hormones kick in.
But a part of Kitty knew that it was probably also because Peg could be overbearing with her affection. She would suffocate you with care until it starts to be unnerving. Their relationship was completely different than the one with her mom in that regard. Of course, Peg also never had been the biggest fan of her but that changed after Nick was born. She was as supportive as someone could be while being a little overbearing.
Kitty's mother on the other hand, Madeleine Katswell, started being okay with the relationship between her and Dudley but it changed after Nick was there. She kept talking ill about the, back then, deceased Dudley, and Kitty wasn't a fan of getting his memory torn apart by her. The contact between them was almost broken off when the invasion began.
Kitty knew in her heart that she couldn't have survived it, she must have died like the small rest of the Katswell family, namely her sister Katty. She felt bitter that their last conversation was a fight and if she could turn back time Kitty had tried everything to make a few last happy memories with her.
The closer Kitty came to Peg's room the surer she was that Nick wasn't there but, then again, maybe she knew where the boy was. She knocked at the door and walked inside before Peg could allow her to enter. Inside, on the metal table, every room in the facility was furnished with, Peg was sitting and looked at the pilot of the human crew, Meternagel, who tried to tell her a story by using a lot of gestures.
Kitty knew that Peg didn't understand the language of the human and Meternagel couldn't speak theirs nor did he bring a translator, but she also saw that this didn't seem to be a problem for them.
"Oh, Kitty sweety!" Peg jumped from her chair and walked to Kitty. "So nice that you are here, John is telling me a story about a plane or a big bird or something."
"Close. It's about the passing of the nebula of Heron." The pilot sighed amusedly.
"What exactly are you doing here…?" Kitty asked the pilot who gave her the widest smirk.
"Oh just spending some quality time with Peg. I tell her stories and she makes a hell of a good coffee."
"She doesn't understand a word," Kitty said leerily and crossed her arms.
"Oh, sometimes you don't need words." The grin grew bigger on his face and Kitty's brain frantically tried to decide if he was implying what she thought he was implying or just messing with her.
"Peg… what are you two doing here…"
"Sweety, John is just trying to distract me a bit," Peg said and frowned. "It's good not to be worried about Dudley all the time."
"Oh, none of you heard the news?" Kitty said and she saw how Peg's frown intensified a few magnitudes.
"There are news?"
"Well yes, Dudley is back but…"
At that point, Peg wasn't listening anymore. She jumped at Meternagel who took her into an embrace and started crying in joy.
"Uh wow…" laughed the pilot and then looked at Kitty who still had her face filled with concern. "Hey, why the frown? Shouldn't you be glad or something?"
"It's just…" Kitty sharply exhaled and said. "We suffered casualties. René didn't make it…"
Meternagel's usual grin, a grin that always carried a sense of ease and nonchalance, was slowly but steadily weight down by the sinking truth.
"You serious?" He said and walked closer to her still carrying the crying Peg.
"Yes… unfortunately." Kitty nodded and looked to the ground. She hadn't spent much time with Renè after they saved their mutual lives at the radio tower.
Kitty also regretted that because besides his foul mouth, René seemed like a good guy, she could understand why Dudley and he had been friends.
"Damn… will there be some kind of funeral or something?"
"You should ask your captain that." She replied and walked to the door as she kept watching the joyful dog hugging the still shocked looking human. "I think I'll leave… my sympathies." She quickly left the room and shook her head.
All in all, it was weird, the two of them together were weird, and in front of her mental eye, she saw herself and Nick visiting Peg while the human sits with them on the table holding Peg's hand.
Again she shook herself and then decided to walk towards the lab to search for Nick. This way she would pass a lot of other places she could search.
She looked into every room on her way but just found people she wasn't searching for. As she finally passed the weapon's chamber, the only room she didn't want to search due to its usual lack of inhabitants, she heard known laughter. Kitty stopped and was about to open the door when her son did it for her.
"Nick?" She asked surprised and received an equally surprised "Mom?" as an answer.
For a few seconds the two of us looked at each other until Kitty tore the silence "What are you doing here?"
"I was…" Nick wanted to explain himself but at that moment his mother realized that there was someone next to him in the room.
"Annabel, is that you?" Kitty must have looked more than surprised judging by the coy expression on the dog's face as she stepped out of the room. "W…What did you two…"
"Uhm… Well…" Nick, also lost for words tried to come up with an explanation. "Well, we were looking at the guns."
Immediately Annabel laid her face into her hands embarrassedly.
"Yeah sure…" Kitty slowly said and looked at the teens who both were blushing heavily. "Did you two at least used prote-"
"Mom!" Nick shrieked his face now beaming red. "We did not… have… you know…"
"Sex you mean." She sternly said. "Nick we had the talk already. And we don't have capacities for any more people right now. Let alone an infant."
"Okay I need to go…" Annabel and her bright red face walked off.
"Anna, wait." Nick said and followed her darting a last gaze at her mom that probably was something like 'Thanks mom'. What she couldn't hear was Nick, who caught up to Annabel and said. "I mean that was embarrassing better than being scolded for leaving the base, right?"
Kitty sighed and watched the teens running away from her. She would give a lot to be so young again just for one day. Sometimes the past seemed so enticing, being back in a world that is not dying under their feet -at least not so much- and living in peace with only villains like Snaptrap to worry about. What a nice dream.
Kitty took a deep breath, it was time, again the past waited for her but not in the form of memories. She started marching towards the shuttle and arrived there after a short while. Some time has passed since Powers asked her to speak to him but not nearly enough for a full night's sleep. But if Dudley had kept some old habits he wasn't sleeping anyway.
Kitty stepped closer to the shuttle and was looking for some kind of button to open the hatch but as soon as she came into the vicinity of the vessel the hatch opened by itself with a quiet hiss sound. Kitty, not sure if she was watched, cautiously entered the shuttle.
The inside looked different than the last time she had seen it. Unlike the decor at her previous visit, which had reminded her of a futuristic bus with some extra amenities, it now looked like a futuristic one-room apartment with two bunk beds on one wall and a table on the other. To her left, the pilot's seat was still there where she remembered it but to her right, the room seemed separated by a new wall.
She walked towards the table, which was covered with weapons that just reminded Kitty of the arms she knew. Someone had tinkered on them, at least that's what Kitty thought as she saw things that could be tools on the table. Her attention was drawn to a sharp double-edged weapon that looked like a dagger that was split in the middle down to the grip.
As she was about to touch it the hatch closed with the same quiet hiss again. Kitty turned around and looked at the wall where the hatch had been. She was still alone and left in the shuttle's confined space. Silence slowly crept from every edge of the room towards Kitty and tried to envelop her if there wasn't this steady Gaussian noise that sounded like water somehow.
Kitty needed a moment to understand that what she heard was a shower, just a lot less loud than she would have expected. Kitty walked closer to the wall and lay her ear on it. It was a shower, indeed, and it stopped just a moment after she tried to eavesdrop. Quickly she jumped away from the wall and moved to one of the chairs that stood around the table.
For a while nothing happened, and the silence sneaked up again. This time with no sound to fear it swept like a wave over Kitty and brought the headaches back. This time even more severe than the days before. She desperately wished for a glass of water. Kitty tumbled to the device where Dudley had last time materialized a one for her.
"Water!" She ordered the machine, but it didn't reply with a glass of water. Kitty tried to think against her headaches, how was the sound of the word Dudley said back then when he used the machine? She tried to mimic the sound but not even her intern translator recognized what she was saying.
"Try to stress the R more." A voice behind her suddenly said.
Kitty didn't look back, she simply applied the advice she just received. Finally, a glass of water appeared. Eagerly she grabbed it and gulped it down in one go. It took her brain a few seconds to decide how it should handle the sudden fluid intake and judged it to be a wise decision as it reduced the self-inflicted pain.
"Thank you…" panted Kitty and turned around slowly. Behind her, covered in a bathing robe, Dudley stood and looked at her with tired red eyes.
"No need." The corners of his mouth twitched a little like he was trying to force a cordial smile on his lips but simply hadn't had the strength to do so. Powerlessly he flopped down on the lower of the bunk beds and just sighed.
"Dudley…" Kitty said and sat down on the bed next to him. "I know this is a stupid question but… how do you feel?"
The dog took a deep breath and exhaled it for quite a while. "I guess you are not shooting for the obvious, do you?"
"No… I mean in general."
Again, Dudley took a deep breath. "Probably my best friend just got exploded while I was watching, and I couldn't do a thing. I return home after a six-century-long odyssey expecting everybody to be dead. Luckily that's not the case but it seems that the person I loved the most had swapped me with someone else. I get to know my son who hates me at first and probably still isn't very fond of me… and my home world is dying. All in all…" Dudley's voice cracked and he teared up. "It's quite the rollercoaster."
Kitty laid her healthy arm around him in an attempt to comfort him. "I can relate to a few of these things" she softly said.
"I'm so dumb… I should have just told him to stay back…" Dudley sobbed but this time anger lay in his voice. "I should have ordered him to stay home. I could have done that…"
"Dudley he decided to join the mission… it's not your fault."
"It is Kitty. I made a dumb mistake… I can't allow myself to do so."
Kitty looked at him surprised, these words didn't sound like him at all. "You? Making no mistakes?" she didn't want to sound sarcastically at that moment, but it was hard when speaking with Dudley about the subject of mistakes.
"Fuck I am trying my best Kitty!" He let her arm slide off his shoulder and stood up. "If I make mistakes, people die. No, actually, if I make mistakes a whole culture dies! How can I save you all if I can't even save people who usually don't need saving."
"We are not helpless children," Kitty said and tried not to roll her eyes. Dudley sounded as dramatic as his teenage son sometimes. "You are not alone in this."
"I know I know…" he sighed and walked back to the bed. "It just feels like it right now."
"Hey, I am here." She smiled as he sat back down on the bed sighing.
"Yes you are… do I have to thank Powers for that?" Dudley's sound was more than sarcastic, and Kitty would have felt offended if he hadn't hit the nail on the head.
"Kind of… and Rob…" she sheepishly admitted.
A long period of silence stretched for so long that Kitty felt how her headaches were sharpening the blades to stab her brain again.
"Do you hate me for leaving you?" Dudley broke the silence with a question. "I mean for making this trip in the shuttle back then."
"I.." she pondered what she should say but decided that the truth was the best she could say. "I tried… I was alone, pregnant and my heart was broken and I thought similar things like the ones Nick said to you. I started hating but this didn't change my situation. Almost every night I cried myself to sleep. It… simply wouldn't work." A short chuckle escaped Kitty's mouth. "I couldn't… which was weird, I thought I had every right to do so. After a while, the anger vanished, and I tried to cherish the good memories… As good as I could." Kitty turned her head to Dudley and saw how he stared at the ground horrified.
"If you… I mean if you want me out of your life… I…" he mumbled and kept fixating his gaze on the ground. "I have done enough damage, I would leave… for you…"
Kitty looked away from him and also turned her stare to the ground. "I don't know Dudley… a part of me is fine with how things are with Rob…But then there was always this slight hope in me that I could see you again one day… That things could be like they have been…" now she started tearing up. She knew why she avoided this talk with Dudley for so long. "But I don't know if they can."
"Are we both chasing a dream?" He asked quietly.
"I think so…" She whispered as the tears started rolling.
"So, this is how it ends…" He sighed and Kitty glanced over to him. His eyes were as wet as hers.
"I'm sorry Dudley…but…"
"No, you don't have to… I know this… is as shitty for me as it is for you…" He turned to her and looked her in the eyes. "I just want you to know… you always have a place in my heart, I'll never stop loving you."
Kitty now started sobbing and as good as she could with a broken arm she hugged Dudley who embraced her and joined her cries. The time passed and even though their tears did not dry they released each other from their embrace. Still sobbing the two of them looked at each other and it was Dudley who tried to lighten the mood a little. "Hey, at least the day can't get any worse from now." He meant and wiped away tears from his cheek.
Kitty gave a weak chuckle "I guess not."
"So, guess I got to tell Rob that he doesn't need to worry about me anymore." Dudley frowned. "But don't make me give him my blessing. Because that is too much."
"I won't, don't worry Duds." She smiled while he looked surprised at her.
"You haven't called me that in ages." He grinned.
"It wasn't so long for me as it was for you." She giggled and then looked a little more concerned at him. She had a question that still had great importance to her. "Do you think we can go back to being friends again?"
"It'll take some time… Also, what will Rob think about that?" He gave her a weak smile.
"A guy who doesn't accept my friends is not for me." She gave Dudley an amused wink. "He'll learn to live with that."
"Than I'm in… under one condition…" he said and looked quite coyly as he said that.
"Sure what is it?" Kitty looked expectantly at him. What was he planning.
"After all this time… The centuries… Would you gift me one last kiss goodbye?"
"Dudley I don't know if this is good…" She insecurely said and meanwhile realized that she was blushing. As it seemed her body had already voted for its answer.
"Probably not." Dudley admitted and also started blushing a little. "But we have been rational already… I think we earned us at least a bit of brainlessness."
"Spoken like the Dudley Puppy I know." She sighed and nodded. "Fine, but just one last."
Dudley smiled widely and gently laid one hand on her neck. He slowly moved towards her and Kitty felt the blood rushing into her face. Her heart beat faster, her breathing quickened, her hands started shaking, and then his lips met hers. A moment of complete bliss encased her and rushed back a barrage of old memories dozen and dozen of kisses they shared together. Some more coy than this and some a lot less.
And as the memories reached their climax all of them collided and suddenly vanished leaving just this moment. Dudley and this kiss. Dwarfing all others of them in comparison. She wrapped her arms around him as tight as she could, ignoring the pain in her broken one. It was more than the nostalgia drawing her, she felt a new spark kindling flames in an old fireplace burning brighter than before.
It was the certainty that she couldn't let this end, not yet at least, that made her hold on to him like he did to her. She pulled him close to her but the lock of their lips was broken by Dudley who gently moved his head back a few centimeters before whispering. "Not bad for a last…"
Kitty didn't let him finish his sentence she pressed her lips onto his again and entered his mouth with her tongue where she was warmly welcomed by his. She could feel how his hands moved down to her backside testing the limits. She jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist which he acknowledged by pushing her onto the wall.
Again, their lips lost each other but soon she found his on her neck covering it with burning touches.
Kitty already felt like she was about to explode, and she would have taken it further, taken it anywhere from the table to the bunk beds if not suddenly her brain felt like a thousand needles were pinched inside of it all at once. Her pain-stricken scream filled the room and Dudley looked at her in shock.
"What's wrong? Did I…"
"My head!" she yelled and started banging her fists against her head. "Headaches! Killing me!"
Dudley put her back on her feet and rushed to a little compartment next to the pilot's seat. "Wait, I think we got some first aid stuff here." He meant but for Kitty, it was too late. She felt pain that no pain killer known could stop combined with a rage that couldn't be appeased by anyone anymore.
She wasn't thinking anymore she just acted. It was one fluid gesture. She picked up the dagger from the table, and without any warning, plunged it deep into Dudley's back. The mutt screamed for just a moment before he fell to the ground motionlessly. A puddle of red-hot blood rapidly formed around him. Kitty stood motionless over him as his blood colored the soles of her shoes red. She stood there and watched without seeing.
-Well I hope I didn't catch you off guard with this one :P As always, don't forget to tell me what you think, PMs and reviews are appreciated, and of course stay tuned for more :)-
