Yes, Chris."He took her hand and they leaned together with big lovey-dovey smiles on their faces. It wasn't but a few miles down the road when I looke... back and he had his arm around Chris and she had her head resting on his shoulder. They looked like a pair of teenagers at the drive-in. A few more miles down the road I heard the TV come on with the cartoon network showing some silly thing I think was called "Sponge-Bob Square-pants" or something like that. Vicky and Brittany loved it. Kim and. Well five of them, the last gota hole in his hand." Talked to the them like'n you said, didn' seemed interested. The one on the street called me out, called me a liar and a horse thief. Didn' take too kindly to it." John almost growled out.Mr. Jones could only nod his head. He'd already confirmed all this. "As I said gonna have to have a meeting. Gonna loose too many of the crew if'n this keeps up. After I bury more'n ten I feel it's time ta get involved." 'ppreciate it boss." John said."Got a. " The collective had learned about such delays from experience, just as the humans were departing it had sent a separate party to find copper deposits which were beyond the range of its telepathic interactions. But included in that party was a female—a "mother"—who, because she'd not yet produced fertile eggs, was still as able to travel as males, so the collective was still able to function, albeit now as two separate collectives."Is this Joe?" she asked. That was the cognomen they'd given the. " Ready?" Yes, this is a once-in-a-lfetime thing; at least for me. It'll only take me a few minutes, and you can pour some of that wine for us."I poured the cheap wine into a couple of water tumblers and stood waiting a few minutes. She stuck her head out the door."I'm ready." Entering her room it was a revelation into a stereotype of every girl's dreams of debauchery.Her double bed was fitted with light pink satiny sheets, with rose petals (slghtly wilted but still fragrant) strewn around, and.