“There’s only two other men in the keep that can do that as easily as you did. Or well… actually it’s just one now but in any case…”Withou... any further words the gatekeeper hollers an oral command to the gate winch operator, and the sounds of creaking rusty iron break the peaceful silence.A well worn dirt path slithers its way deep into the distant trees, and upon setting foot out of the gate the deep horizon of the forest revealed itself – stretching in either direction for as far as the eye. " Yeah, what?" I called out."Paint, anyway that's what it says on the manifest," he shouted across the storeroom.Good, the matt black paint I had ordered had arrived and now, with the help of the Starbase's space dock, we can spray number 299 all over black."It really does work you know, Candy," said Lila who was supervising the re-spray. "You can hardly see it." Well, I hope so," she said, "This paint didn't come cheap." Come in, Captain," invited the commander of Starbase 22. "We have news in. “Hailey said you divorced her mother when she was three. Five years is the usual term of alimony for a marriage shorter than 10 years. From what I understand, eight years old is when the courts take the children’s wishes into account when determining custody.”“And I had filed a modification a month earlier,” Michael said with a grimace. “Damn it! Why didn’t I see that?”“Again, if I had to guess, you were too worried that you might have done something to harm Hailey – or your career,” Phil said.. And I am going to give him what he wants — I always do — but first I’m gonna make him wait. I know that each second feels like eternity for him but he loves it and he’s getting harder and harder by the second. He always likes me to tie him up and gag and blindfold him and then do my nails real slow next to him or read a book or even go for a walk around the block.So I strap this thing around my waist. Well, I step into it, really. I tie it tight so it doesn’t shake loose and then bam! I have.