. you were just doing what... what a normal boy would do. And... and I know when there are... are attractive women around that..."OH SHIT! She knows I...was checking out Mrs. Gregerson! Ron's gut knotted tighter."... that guys... boys, I mean... young men..." She took a sip of water. "That guys will... will have thoughts and.... and will fantasize." Another sip of water. "Girls... girls... I mean, everyone... I mean both sexes... masturbate. It's... it's a psychological and biological function.. We had faced a remorseless enemy with more time, money and willpower left than his victims had ever possessed. The insane idea briefly appealed to me that the entire world might just be better off if set entirely on fire, just for the sheer joy of dancing upon the burning embers in final triumph.Kramer offered me my usual chair in the interrogation room and he straddled his, sitting backward so that his arms and chin could rest upon the top of the metal chair back. The two ADA’s hung back,. ” We went to the spare bedroom and sat on the couch.“Fair enough. On the intellectual side, I immediately assume great power, from the respect shown to you by Germaine. It wouldn’t be inaccurate to include great affection and even love, professional and personal.“Physically, you’re a damn hot woman, somewhat older than I am, but a matter of zero concern. I’d guess you are old enough to be my big sister, but, at worst, you’d have to have had me very young to be my mommy. Physically, you are. It was on the way back from this less than Perilous expedition, though, that I made the error, and one that was to complicate my life immeasurably, whatever the chivalry of my motives may have contributed to my standing in the Higher World. Even despite the fact that my intervening thus in the affairs of Mortal Men might not be judged favourably by many of my Calling. In any case, I found a young damsel in distress, a mere waif, as scrawny and unkempt as most of her kind, experiencing unwanted.