She giggled quietly as she lowered her skirts, feeling quite naughty at how easily she had gotten Duncan to approve their agreement. Wondering for a m...ment what else she could accomplish with this newly discovered power, she was distracted from further thought as Duncan spoke.Still facing the window, Duncan announced, “I will send word when my solicitor can provide the funds. Thank you for upholding your end of the deal. I am assured beyond doubt of your dedication to the project and collateral. Trying to calm her, I rubbed her back with one hand and stroked her long brown hair with the other, all the while making soothing noises."Shhh... shhh... it will be okay," I said gently. "You can't go home?" I asked.I felt her head shake in my shoulder. Home was out."Do you think it's too late to take up one of your friends on their offer to visit them?" She shrugged her shoulders, not sure. "What do you want to do? Tell me how I can help." I lifted her head, gently stroking her cheek and wiped. That group of activists he had gotten involved with wasn’t giving up their push to create a pride parade, although this time they were trying to paint a rainbow crosswalk on one of the bridges and were arrested for vandalism.Mark asked, “Do you have someone else to work on the backend programming, since Zack was obviously having issues?”They admitted they had a new programmer that had moved here from Atlanterra, Beth said he was ‘next level’ with the stuff he was able to do, he just needed more. Lydia pulled her dripping tongue from Alan’s mouth, much to his relief. She smiled down at him, affectionately he thought, and said, ‘Gotcha.’ ‘What?’ ‘If I hadn’t taken the initiative I would have waited around morosely for days or as my sister said perhaps for weeks, before you decided in a spurt of passion to try to fuck me.’ ‘What me wait to get my end into a lush like you,’ Alan said rather creatively. ‘Oh darling, that’s more like it,’ she said a dabbed her wet lips on to the tip of his.