Our initial contact was nonverbal and consisted of back and forth stares across the bar. Cliff was not my normal cup of tea because he was hefty and l...rge, with an unattractive puffy face. Cliff, however, had the most intriguing and captivating puppy dog eyes I had seen in a long while. As I observed him, I couldn’t believe that a man like him was even faintly garnering my attention.For the following fifteen minutes, nonetheless, I felt myself totally intrigued by him, and when Cliff finally. One of the harriers' crunched into Cold Albatross's thick titanium hull and the plane quickly started to loose control. I let out a gasp of dismay for there was little time for the pilot to eject. Beverly had already anticipated the tragedy however and let out an oath. "Stupid cunts! Hold on tight Ruby!" My shoulder slammed against the window as the Cold Albatross suddenly decelerated in the old fashioned three-dimensional sense and a dull green tractor beam erupted from the side of our hull.. ’ ‘Well I’m telling you I’ve been over-run with calls of news media wanting you for follow-up and calls from nine or ten magazines wanting to do a profile and picture spreads on you, a national TV station wants you urgently to appear on their ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday night prime time feature and someone called Linda, who sounds like a sweet schoolgirl, wants you for a 30-minute live special tomorrow night. I’ve listed every call. You best come here quickly and deal with them.’ ‘What day is it?’. ” She says obviously worried by my words.I follow Seraphine as she leads me through the cramped and stinking streets of the city towards her families home. She stops outside a house and looks around at me for a moment before opening the door.“Dad, are you home?” She calls out as she steps inside with me following close behind her.“I thought you were going to be out till later.” Her father says as he walks into the room with a smile on his face, his smile falters for a moment when he sees me.