. or her lover . . . ever see her hair unbound. Is this true?" "Such is our custom," I replied, "and if you know that, you know that husband and ...over are one and the same." "Always?" His amusement now twitched at his eyes as well as his lips. "For those who are honorable, yes," I declared. "And for you?" Now he grinned openly. I slapped him. It was a reflex so fast that I didn't even have time to consider any consequences. Deacon would never have done it. When. It was close to 60m at its highest point from the ground, I guessed since several metres of it were buried in the ground.I walked around it and found where Winifred had removed a section to get at the malfunctioning engine. I let out my senses but couldn’t detect any residual radiation. I guessed that Winifred and two thousand years rain and weather must have dissipated it to a level that it wasn’t detectable from normal background radiation of the planet.I entered the section at this point,. ” She then went back into her room, closing the adjoining door on her way.As Sean approached the door leading from their room to the hallway, Amanda started to hug him, but then stopped. She still hadn’t fully recovered from the effects that her earlier physical contact with him had caused and she didn’t want to compound her confusion until she had an opportunity to analyze things further. “Do you want me to pick anything up for you while I am shopping for the girls?”Noticing her hesitancy with. Turning the light back off naked she walked across her apartment and into the kitchen. There followed the usual routine she followed most mornings: turn on the Nespresso machine; grab a mug; grab a coffee pod; and once the lights stop flashing press it once, and then a second time. The coffee machine still doing its thing she headed back to her bedroom, grabbing the clothes from the floor and throwing them into the laundry bin as she opened one of her drawers, pulling out a black, mid-thigh.