This time we somehow managed to come together at the same time and we washed each other’s backs like frisky school chums on a vacation outing.The ar...ival of the chattering Mary and her reticent companion cousin Amy was a delight that changed the atmosphere of the entire day. The poor girl was wearing an outfit that was suited more to a schoolgirl much younger than her eighteen years and I must shamefully confess the impression it made on my libido resulted in an erection of monstrous. "I'm Fukui Hadas?tsu from Nihon, happy to see you." Happy too." Nina stumbled over a better way to respond but could notthink of one.The group of men had kept their distance while this was going on tryingto gouge the new arrivals. Now, two of them stepped forward.They both had short blond hair and even were wearing the same blue getup.The only difference between the blond guys was that one was a bit taller,the other a bit shorter."This idiot is Manny Rivera, but you can call him Fanny." The. Tiege said, “The only embarrassment at the university is you, Dr. Dimsdale.”“You’re just as much an asshole as Dr. Demento over there.”Dr. Tiege said, “I’d like to remind you that Dr. Cage is a very well respected and internationally known scientist with a list of publications in the last two years that makes your lifetime contributions to our field look as insignificant as they actually are. In fact, I don’t think you’ve published anything that wasn’t written by one of your students in ten. After a few minutes to freshen up in the restroom, we were whisked by car to a large hangar near one end of the building complex that comprised the base. Inside the hangar, which was literally the size of a football stadium, was a luminescent hemisphere, like a large dome, mostly green, but with flecks of color that would wash over its surface.Bertrand assured me that the hemisphere was a perfect semicircle. Inside it, he informed me, was a being that had traveled here from another star, and.