”I looked deep into his eyes as I leaned a bit forward. “Is that better for you?” I looked around and at the open door to the office. I lowered ...y voice, “I thought you had enough with the … whatever this organization is.”“It’s different now. The previous Director took us off the reservation, as we call it. It took my disappearance and some other indicators to wake up the Board. It is running now the way it was intended to. I really can’t say much, though.”“I understand. I suppose it is unusual. The man fell across the woman who was acting as decoy, pinning her to the ground under him. Her sole remark to the soldier was, "Oh, Asatal, I didn't know you cared!" before she started laughing at the ridiculous situation. Her companion was startled by this reaction, but he did recover enough to kiss her before scrambling off her.None of the other encounters with enemy scouts were quite so dramatic, but the scout was killed in every case before he could report back to his commander that the. Right now it's all just too new to us."At that moment the door opened to our suite of rooms and three visions of beauty came forth bearing plates of food. They smiled and said hello to Tom as they deposited breakfast fixings on the table. They were each dressed in matching shorts and T-shirts and after laying the feast before us each in turn gave me a brief buss on my lips, smiled and then headed back inside. Julie turned to us at the door and said, "Tom, there's more inside, in fact there's. But neither one of us has gone shopping for groceries in far too long. It looks like we'll have to spend some time talking about eating habits over a pizza when he gets home.Since I can't start supper I went upstairs and began to sort out the very few possessions in my apartment that I'll want to keep.Except for my special lingerie collection all of my old clothes are going to go to charity, though it's unlikely that anyone will want the ugly old things. I own some books and a small assortment.