The adults gawked too, but at least they tried to be a little bitdiscreet about it. The teens were like savages, though. Especially thegirls. While he...was window shopping a few girls had stopped him, asking,"Hey, can we get a picture with you?" Tom agreed, but the girls wereterrible, asking if they could try on his wig and trying to pull up hisskirt to check out his underwear. As they reviewed their pictures, theysquealed with ear-splitting laughter, shrieking, "Oh my God, that is. Seth sat at his desk and stared out the window but saw nothing. He'd just returned from the airport and felt bereft without Gabriela. Closing up her apartment was something she needed to do but he still hated being apart from her.A knock on his office door brought him back to the present."Hey boss, how you doing?"Erik stood in the doorway and watched Seth. He knew Gabriela was gone for a while and hoped to distract his friend."Yeah Erik, you need something?"It was obvious Seth hadn't paid. She wondered for a moment if Havers had exceeded the ‘ration’. Quite possibly, she reckoned. Still, what did it matter? The girl would be healed again before the Boss returned. “Yes,” nodded Havers, whose chest was heaving and whose eyes were a little bloodshot, “and a caning for her too!” He realised, with a slight feeling of trepidation, that for a little while, just before, his sadism had overwhelmed him... that he had scarcely known what he was doing any more... and, as a result, he had. Her pure white hair all ruffled and tangled."You're talking about the warp barrier?" she asked."Yes," I agreed."Just suppose you projected the warp field ahead of the ship," she said, looking directly at me and smiled."What good would that do?" asked Jefferson with a frown on his face."Get the warp space moving before the ship arrived," she said."No, no, that won't work," he said. "You would have to project it a long way, many thousands of klicks at least." Do some sums and see," she said and.