He thought itwouldn't be at all surprising if they were pointed. He smiled tohimself, imagining she had come from Rivendell, straight out of thepages ...f Lord of the Rings.***She knew he was watching her, but she didn't mind that too much. Sheprobably shouldn't have been so rude when he asked her where she camefrom, but it wasn't any of his business. He was nice looking, nothandsome, but interesting. She thought if he lost the glasses and got abetter haircut he would look attractive. Thinking. Several days' beard growth gave him a black mask that she felt she disliked. He was perhaps three inches taller than her, but many pounds heavier. Forty would be a good guess of his age, she thought, younger than her father."Yes, beer. My men search house. Just in case." Lauren nodded, pouring lemonade from the bottle into three glasses and then pulling a pack of beer from the fridge. Suddenly, a scream resounded down the hallway. Her initial terror subsided as she realised that the sound. "Maybe she's out with the horses, darling. I really shouldn't have neglected her when we got home, but I was so horny I could hardly think straight." Hogwash! She's a big girl. She doesn't need you baby- sitting her every second."They left the house and went out back, tip-toeing and wincing their way across the sandy, sun-sizzling ground until they stood in the cool shade of one of the stables. The wind carried the smell of dry grass and horses."I don't see her anywhere," Buck said, looking out. "I took two spare fusion plants out of inventory and checked them over carefully before mounting and fueling them. I left all three ticking along under maintenance load while my team worked on the field generators. Nothing was powered up yet, but the superconducting bus bars were poured and tested, just not hooked up. That would be done through remote controlled robotics once the test bed was on site.It took a lot of Q-bit sets to monitor and control all the settings. From the resonance.