I had no idea what they planned, but after a nice dinner the three of us drove back to Trina’s house in separate cars. There we smoked, and had very...interesting sex. Honestly I was still on the sunny side of thirty five, but I couldn’t keep up. Ester teased me by saying next time she was going to invite some of her patients, which meant some of my clients as well.“As long as you introduce me as the man who does Trina’s yard work. I don’t see any problem with it, but don’t count on me to joining. Not now. Don’t leave me.” “Of course not.” “Meet me at my place in an hour. My parents are out of town so we’ll have plenty of time to ourselves to talk.” Jason was more excited than he had ever been on his drive home. When he got there he quickly took a shower and changed into nicer clothes. He definitely wasn’t going to see Alexa in his work clothes. He had a hard time waiting the full hour but it finally came and he went over to her house. When she answered the door he found that she also. “That is a good point,” Karen thought about it and told the boys they would be doing that at the mall today. Mark and Tucker didn’t argue with that new rule. It seemed implied anyway. Mark didn’t plan to call girls his own age Ma’am. He’d have no problem saying it to women though. Tucker still hadn’t been registered in school. He was looking forward to it but he was very advanced academically and would probably have been disappointed with a country high school like the one Betty’s kids. ”“I was a TechnoYr’ch!”“Then you know I’m talking the truth!”“You mentioned food?” came another question after an awkward pause.“Yes, with the blessings of Ar-Thenna.”“For food, we can talk.”“We’ve managed to open a dialogue with six of the fifteen surviving enclaves,” I reported back to Roxanne. “None of the ones who talked would permit us access, but are willing to take food and medical supplies as well as talk to us. All appear to be wary of anything to do with Athena. The remaining nine.