Thrust/The rest of the day

From Torg Adventure

When you come out, your mother and Milly are making dinner. Tracy is up, wearing a very revealing outfit of green belly shirt and jean short-shorts. She smiles at you mysteriously. You go set the table.

Dinner is pretty good for mostly canned food. Everyone eats heartily and makes idle chit-chat. After dinner, your mom reads aloud from '10,000 Leagues Under the Sea', one of her favorites. Your mother has very interesting taste in books, more in line with a teenaged boy than a middle-aged soccer mom. The girls are used to it, and seem to enjoy the action.

"Lights out everyone! We need to conserve power for cloudy days. Those solar panels in the clearing in the woods can only make so much electricity," your dad declares. "Five minutes."

You all grump a bit, but know he's right. He got you this far, and seems to know what he's doing. You brush your teeth and get into your bunk. Everyone else does the same, then your dad flicks the main power switch near the radio console. The shelter goes dark again.

You can't really sleep, but soon you hear everyone's breathing quiet down. You almost drift off to sleep until you hear a foot on the ladder to your bunk. You wait to see what happens and who climbs into your bed. Is it your mom for another round? Is it Tracy? It couldn't be Milly. Could it? You feel your thin blanket lift and a warm body slide into your bed.

Who is it?

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