And as tempting as it is to do just that, Chance decides not to as it is obvious Shatto is watching them. So he pulls Rory down the hall to the double...doors at the end. Without pausing, he swings the door open and steps inside, taking his sister with him.“I’m glad you could make it,” Chris Shatto says as soon as they enter. His siblings’ eye fall upon the man sitting at a desk with several monitors lined up, hanging above him. “As you know, I command a virtual empire. With that said, I have. It seemed as if they were going to leave, which was cool with me- because I didn't really want to hang out with 2 flamboyant gay men...what the hell are we going to talk about? I don't care about which celebrities are currently dating.Then they pull out this fat blunt and ask if they can smoke before heading to the bar. Fuck it, I let them in. I smoke in the basement though, it's barely lit, with a record player and 1 big comfy couch. It's usually a great place to get women in the right. When we left my place, Donna rushed out and got into the front passenger seat the quickest. I let her have what I hoped was one of her last rides in that seat.It was easy for Julia to get Donna to help her with something in the kitchen, while I had a quick chat with Carol to bring her up to date with everything Vanessa had told me. Carol's role for when we had to discuss our marriage with Mom and Dad was small and simple, mainly just to say she loved me, loved the idea of having a three-way. "I went to the North American Embassy to see what I could learn. There were a couple of Neanderthals there that had one of the machines. I froze them in place and brought the machine back here. It's being analyzed now to determine how it works. We're doing our best to develop a counter to it. You need to be patient while we see what can be done. Then you can go back in there and get our people back. If necessary we'll send a shuttle to pick up all of you." This was followed by another silence,.