The town's solution to the snow was heavy applications of rock salt. That much salt simply damaged the road and the freezing and thawing softened up t...e base under the blacktop. The result was the black top was destroyed.The town was demanding immediate repairs. It was in the permitting with the town that we were responsible for road damage. It was the middle of January, the blacktop plants were closed and would not reopen until the end of March and until the base firmed up there were no. There was no place to discuss the faults of the government. Free speech even for the military was a thing to be cherished but watched so that it was not overly used. Now even that was not allowed. You were either all in favour of all the various strategies or an enemy that needed to be shunned or worse.The present mission was very bad. Some former American citizens and now members of the Alliance were helping the remnants of the Philippine people to recover. It had been tried before to play on. The wild excesses of the ceremony would insure these watchers would look the other way when the secret formulas were administered and the incantations were performed. It was merely a form of distraction in the guise of sexual perversions. Ruth could see the wisdom of this sort of devious trickery and accepted her fate.Only a few kilometers south of the royal pyramid, the body of Neferuptah and her two close handmaidens rested undisturbed in their sarcophagi. They had been moved two times. Once out on the water, the girls dropped their flowing sundresses to reveal matching one-piece skin-toned bathers. At first glance, you’d swear they were completely naked. In fact, it took a lot more than a mere glance to be sure they had anything on at all.Jack’s eyes nearly fell out of his head. Lori handed a tube of sunscreen to Kyle, and with a cheeky grin, Maddy gave Jack a tube of sunscreen. “Would you mind, please, Jack?”“Of course, darling, we can’t have your beautiful skin burning now,.