I hastened out the back door, down the porch steps and across the yard. A row of bushes stood between my house and the gas station. I squeezed through...one of the wide holes in the bushes. Looking like a dancer, I lifted my bare feet high off the hot cement of the BP lot. I hustled to the store's front door, dying to feel the air conditioning inside. I burst through the front door and breathed in a lungful of hot air."Hey, where's the cool air?" I shouted at the young black guy behind the. Cinny came up behind Kim and wrapped her arms around her friend’s waist, holding her and softly caressing her belly. “Isn’t it wonderful?” she whispered into Kim’s ear. “So soft. So inviting. So beautiful.”Kim nodded slowly as she watched Linny manipulate her fingers. She felt Cinny holding her and caressing her lightly, causing her to relax against the warm body pressing into her back.Linny lifted Kim’s hand and brought it to her face. Linny sucked one of the dew-covered fingers into her mouth. ”She laughed at that. “Like three-minute eggs!” she agreed. “I wish I could be there to see that.”“You want me to tell him I just came from seeing you or do you want me to leave his imagination alone in the woods to wander on its own?” I grinned at her.She laughed again, the thought of his face seeming to be hilarious to her. “Which do you think will drive him crazier?”“I think he’ll assume that they’re yours,” I confided. “Give me your number and I’ll text you to let you know what. He got in the jeep to head over to tell them that they were going to be quartered in some barracks over in the center of the Army side of the base. Things had changed since the original agreement. General Mosi had not liked having a mercenary army where he couldn’t keep a close eye on them.Realizing he didn’t have to drive over, he put down the binoculars, picked up the handset for the radio, and then said, “Jade Force Aircraft T-1, this is Kale Mufti Base Air Traffic Control, you are not.