And all of youraccounts and records will be reviewed as well, to see if we need to pressany criminal charges." Sir, I have never taken anything from t...is company," he said quietly butdefiantly."Tom, that's not true, is it? You have taken company time to view thesesites, you have spent company resources on using internet bandwidth toaccess them. So don't tell me you haven't stolen anything from thecompany. The real question is what else have you stolen from the company?" Please, Sir, I. ‘Ten. Five years… I think. I don’t really know for sure anymore.’ I told him quietly, trying to remember just how long it had really been. ‘The last thing I remember before being taken was our fight.’ ‘Our fight? The one we had last time we saw each other? But how? I saw you a few days after that?’ ‘It was about a week later, I had been writing you a text, apologizing for the things I had said, when I looked up and saw him walking towards me. In the few seconds it took for me to realize who it. But enough of our climate, sweet Velda. I too, am a virgin.’She gasped, ‘But on our world ... you are three terrans older than I?’‘On your world, Velda, you mate soon after puberty, I have read up on your world.’She nodded. ‘That is true, husband. Only on our world only the males read, we girls are not allowed to be as advanced either in manners or technology as the boys and men of our world, and even they must be well behind what you learn on your more advanced world. I wonder why I was chosen. “But maybe I can learn how to grow up.”“Then I’ll stay with you, I want to learn too. Maybe I can learn how to scare you,” he said and showed me his toothy grin.Atady stayed, and we traveled the lands of Atyseos, together. The moon broke asunder, and two new moons wandered across the sky. Mountains fell into an abyss of nothingness, and rose again, higher. Plains and deserts, forests and swamps, I saw them vanish, and he watched them grow again. Birth and death, hand in hand, no one led, no one.