This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...After a big gulp of coffee – Jeff could never understand how Whitworth could drink it that hot – the General locked eyes with the Prime. “Enough of that bullshit; now, what do you need?”
“My wives want you to assign Emma to Ship for the duration of our search for the race that built Ship’s brain. I checked with Jasmine, and she says that she could use an assistant. To refresh your memory, Emma is an anthropologist, but she only has a BS, while Jasmine received her doctorate in anthropology a few months back.”
“I’m not senile – yet,” Whitworth growled. “Hell, I even remember what I – uh, we – gave her. Well, what my wives told me to give her when she received her doctorate. Now tell me the real reason.”
Jeff held back a sigh and wished he had just come clean to begin with. “My wives are interested in Emma – for another wife for me. However, it seems that she is down on men in general because of the way her fiancé suddenly walked out on her without even giving an explanation.”
Whitworth chuckled as a smile touched his face. “Are you sure that you want to take a man-hater with you on a two-year trip?”...
Have a goodun;
Roust