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even impossible if the woman resists, but it can work if she cooperates and knows what she is doing.
Rue knew. She leaned back against a wall so as not to have to be concerned with balance, and supported
me as I thrust into her, and this time she was as ready as I. We kissed deeply, and just before I climaxed
I nipped her on the tongue, and I felt her react below. She went crazy against me, and her body
convulsed about my member, bringing me off within her. I cannot claim it was the best climax I have
had, for the awkwardness of the position did detract, but it was highly satisfactory, and not only on the
physical plane.
"Oh, lover, thank you!" she said, kissing me a final time. "I did so much want to have you, as me." Then
she broke, for the vertical position does not allow a woman much time to clean up. She retreated to the
bathroom while I got back into my trousers.
Then I became aware of Doppie. The calls had continued to come in during our intermission, for it was
only the planetary broadcast that had been jammed, not the phone service. She had taken over the phone,
fielding those calls as Spirit. I had made love to Rue in Doppie's presence.
That had been unkind, for Doppie was smitten by me too. She was as old as she seemed to be, and
hardly foolish, but I did not need to read her to know that she would have traded places with Rue if she
could. It is a mistake to assume that older women have no desires; they are merely more careful about
showing them. In fact, the desire in age can be greater than that in youth, in women and perhaps in men,
too.
I had never intended to take advantage of Doppie. Now I realized that I had done her wrong. "Doppie, I
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owe you," I said to the back of her head.
She did not turn, but I knew she heard and understood. Her hurt turned to joy. Then she contacted the
local dialysis unit, and I went for my treatment.
The appearance of the Saturn ships had nullified Tocsin's siege of Ganymede; the Jupiter Navy was now
outgunned in this region of space. Ploy and counterploy; it was not the first time this had occurred here.
But now the Saturn ships were spreading out to menace Jupiter itself. That was the muscle behind my
takeover of the planet: my words were merely the declaration of intent, while Saturn was the
mechanism. I had of course cleared this with Khukov. He had hesitated to make an attempt on Jupiter,
lest it provoke mutually destructive war, but Spirit and I had believed that the Tyrant could do it without
that dread result, and that we had to do it. The Triton Project needed the resources of Jupiter, and Tocsin
had made it plain that the present government would never join.
How had the Saturn ships been able to spread without molestation? That was where Spirit's advance
work came in. Naturally Tocsin had ordered action, heedless of the consequence but somehow the task
forces ordered into action had gone astray. Orders had been confused, and foul-ups had occurred. Not
one Jupiter ship had fired on a Saturn ship. That was part of what had kept Tocsin occupied during the
interim; he had realized that the Jupiter Navy had been partially subverted.
Of course it could not be as simple as using projection to bring Saturn vessels of war within Jupiter's
defensive perimeter. The true balance of terror lay not with the ships but with the subs. Largely
invisible, the subs of each planet surrounded the other, ready to fire their missiles and lasers and blast
the enemy cities out of atmosphere or space. The System had lived for centuries under that threat, and no
one liked it, but there had been no way to escape it.
Until now. That was another reason that the Triton Project was so important. It was why this terrible risk
was necessary.
My first broadcast had preempted the holo sets of Jupiter and Jupiter-space. Tocsin's forces had in due
course zeroed in on it and jammed it out. But within a day we were ready for the next move: we had
located the sources of the jamming, and could nullify it, temporarily. I was ready for my second
broadcast.
I made it. "This is the Tyrant, again," I said. "As I explained yesterday, the government of Jupiter has
been corrupted, with the same bloodsuckers feeding on public resources as were there before the
Tyrancy existed. I do not blame my wife for this; she did what was right. I blame the corrupt leader who
sidled back into place the moment he was able. That is Tocsin, who has twice brought to ruin the good
that my wife has tried to do. I charge him with treason against the planet of Jupiter, and I require him to
step down and turn himself in for justice. How say you, Tocsin?"
Of course the man was listening. This second broadcast had caught him as flat-footed as the first,
because he thought he had nullified this sort of thing. He had reckoned without my sister's thorough
preparation, and had not yet realized that it was the technical staff of the Jupiter Navy that was
nullifying the jamming signals.
Tocsin, thus challenged, came on. But he seemed neither astonished nor dismayed. It was not an act; I
read him, and found that he believed he had the upper hand. Why was that so?
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"Tyrant, you think you have won," he rasped. "But you've lost. You think your friend on Saturn supports
you, but he doesn't."
"He supports me," I asserted before Tocsin's words concluded, so as to minimize the delay. "At such
time as he does not, he will let me know first. But I am merely borrowing the Saturn fleet for this
purpose; I am acting as the representative of the Triton Project, and will govern Jupiter as a supporting
planet, not as a conquest of Saturn. On this we have agreed; there will be no Saturnist interference in the
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