Only then, does one discover the finer things available with a little work. Refusing to adapt condemns us to failure.”“What guarantees can I offer...which don’t rely on a lengthy confirmation?” Al asked.Rollsqmarsh hesitated. “Who was responsible for this action?”Al turned, silently considering the base commander. He couldn’t meet Al’s gaze and didn’t respond.“As you said, lives are depending on our resolving this,” Rollsqmarsh reminded him, noting the delay.Brskll stepped forward. “I am Admiral. "Not to worry. I actually have the generator on a timer," I told her. "It's currently set to shut itself off after an hour. Generally I don't run it all the time, just when I need additional electrical power for whatever reason. If you'd prefer, I can run out and reset it again."She looked immediately relieved, but then told me. "No actually, this is fine. Perfect in fact," as the lights just then went out, leaving only the light in the entire cabin now coming from the warm fire we were sitting. “So, this is where you’ve been going?” She asked, cocking her head.Thale chuckled, softly.Venn blushed. “How did you get here?” She asked, then frowned. “This ... is real?”Thale blinked. “What?”Venn was serious. She grabbed onto him. “Thale, that’s you?”One second, she was there.The next, she was not.Thale sat up, his eyes widening. “V-Venn?” he asked. Enriquah knelt beside him, her hand on his shoulder. Adoran emerged from the brush a moment later, jerking his leg free of a small bramble. His. By now we'd been passed by many people and many cars.I have to admit that my confidence was growing and I was starting toreally enjoy myself. As we came round a corner there was a group ofsmall school kids out in a school outing. This was the only time I feltuncomfortable. Mistress led me to cross the road to get away from themand the funny thing was that as Mistress said 'they probably don't knowany better, they certainly don't know you're a man' we heard a boyshout out 'Look at that man!'..