"I have an idea. Come to my room before you go to sleep."That night she gave me a satin blue nighty. "Put this on. I want youwear this and sleep. I've...decided that since I'm stuck with you, I mightas well have some fun. So, I am going to dress you up as a girl and keepyou as my pretty slave for a week." But..." I said but she shushed me with a finger on my lips."Don't worry my sweet Alec. It'll be our secret. And trust me, you'llenjoy this as much as I will. Now goodnight."That night I couldn't. “It’s all his fault! If he hadn’t flirted with me in chemistry class, I’d still be the old, boring Kara. He helped me set myself free.”“Just how free are you?” Melanie smirked.“Mel!” Pete warned.“No, Pete, let her ask her question,” Kara said primly. “The one she really wants to ask.”Melanie looked at me and I just shrugged. I wondered what Kara’s game was here. I was sure there was one. And I was pretty sure Melanie was about to get her comeuppance.“Would you be willing to swap boyfriends for. Something that would either give the elemental table or primes. Something that wouldn't just happen randomly. Essentially, anything that might initiate an opening of communications.The most wonderful thing for us though, is that we can hear and talk to Katy. We can't see her and aren't certain that she's in this particular Dyson's sphere, but we can talk to her. More to the point we can relay all of the information that her tug's computer gathered on her flight to wherever she is. She,. The phone rings. I go in the den and hit the recorder, just in case."Yeah?" I say."Is Murray Antoinette available?" a woman's voice asks. She sounds professional, but the sultry undertone has Jack up and wanting to listen in on the extension. Yeah, he likes what I hear."Who wants to know?" I ask. Hell, it's my phone. I don't have to be polite. Someone calls me at home, they take what they get."This is Special Agent Allison Allbright, from the FBI," she says.Shit, this woman doesn't have a.