With that, they both stripped down to their boxer shorts and went out side. Julie looked at me. "Come on," she said, "it's not like you to be shy." I ...old her my problem and then she just laughed and told me to suit myself. She lifted up her dress and stood in front of me in the most amazing thong and bra. I suddenly had all sorts of feelings running through my body. Then she rushed outside to join the others. I grabbed the wine and went outside to sit next to them so that I wasn't on my. ''Hopefully then, you won't have to parachute in.'Aghast, I stared at her and then she produced that thin smile.'A joke Mr Stratton, a small joke. You will be quitecomfortable.''Tell me about it, then,' I said walking on and she walked by myside.'You will join a jazz orchestra that is leaving London in a fewweeks for a tour of East Berlin, Prague and Budapest, invited bythe Soviet government and sponsored by the British government aspart of a cultural exchange program.'That got my interest and. ‘Darian, you wouldn’t believe the experience I had last night with Barry,’ I began. Darian’s lavender eyes were dancing. His words held a lingering ennui, like last night’s experience, and it felt as if we were speaking to each-other under water, moving in slow motion. ‘I think I might,’ he returned. ‘I felt it here, too.’ ‘Really?’ My eyes widened. ‘Yes. Heaven was very near last night.’ ‘I think I was in it,’ I said. ‘They brought me a message. It’s time for me to go home,’ Darian said. .. In other words, even if he, Ozeyn, or anyone else from his tribe, will tattletale, no one would guarantee their livelihood.“You have my word as leader of the Red Rose Beaks tribe and a Youyue”. Ozeyn asserted and glanced on the pair. “Elder Naza, Baroet, give him what he wants and swear secrecy in the name of the tribe and your own names so he could go!” It was not a request and far from a typical instruction. The words Ozeyn uttered landed in Naza’s and Baroet’s ears like bombshells,.