I pushed my way through the crowd to find a really badly lit black stairwell that went down to a basement room. I could see the machine at the bottom...of the stairs. So i lurched down them to the machine. I bought some fags and then turned to see a very dimly lit room. There was a closed bar at the end of it and several tables around which sat red leather seats. The room was empty so i chose a table in the corner to sit at and smoke on my own for a bit, just to cool off. I guess i sat. She walked through the main area, she walked past display vacbed, and tables that had custom built maniquinns set up and hooked to machines to test how powerful the toys were on the mannequins. Batgirl shivered at the thought of the poor manniquinns being test subjects. and what they prototype toys did. She continued on through the area, she was still getting used to wearing her skin tight uniform again. It was a slow night for Roland. He hated the late shift, especially patrolling the adult. We went to bed early, in my old room I stripped off naked and got under the covers. It had been some time since I’d slept in my old bed, the last couple of years before I left home I’d gone and lived with my Aunt Liz., thinking of her, Liz that is, I was looking forward to seeing her the next day, of course she knew I’d be home and would be happy to see me again too. As I lay in bed my mind turned to how my home life had been, mother and I were both strong willed people that had been the main. Something he hadn’t even thought about. Except when seeing how hard Simon and Freddy worked. Maybe a little guilt in that. Or a lot.“I don’t know how much that should be,” he told Constance regarding any reward for Simon and Freddy.“Let me, or Jonathon, take care of it,” she winked. “I do have experience in giving the kind of reward that can show talented people the sort of appreciation they both deserve and to keep them part of the company.”“Meaning for you?”“And for you, dear boy. For your.