“I guess, I’ll go first,”Marie looked at Jeff, then his wives. “You’re positive there aren’t any side effects to this?”Susan’s smile i...creased as she spoke up. “Well, other than feeling better than you ever have in your life, having more energy and wanting to eat anything you can get your hands on and not gaining any weight unless you want to, becoming any apparent age you want, your mind being sharper, your hearing and eyesight far better, and a few other things like living forever – no, there. Suddenly, I remembered I had not seen Ana and Leyla for a long while. I needed some fresh air; so I told Matthew that I was going outside and he joined me.Matthew then told me he had put a couple of poppers in our wives’ drinks. I asked him if he had got crazy; but he just laughed.I got angry with him and said we were leaving.But Matthew begged me to calm down and I finally accepted one of his poppers. I felt really relaxed after a while.I finally told him to get a couple new drinks and join. ”Finally, after what felt like an hour of rapid fire panning, the camera came to the very end of the tethers, which whipped slowly back and forth in the blackness of space like snakes. Here, they glowed with a halo of eerie blue-pruple lightning, arcing off in a dozen different directions. My djinn murmured in my head and I instantly knew what the machine was.“Oh that’s clever,” I said.Mal glanced at me. “Huh?”“They stick the tether through the magnetic fields of Atom and use the differential. “Yes! We have a good time, don’t we guys?” All the kids chorused ‘Yeah, ‘ and Rees made breakfast. I just continued to nap on my stool until customers began to arrive.Ford went to pick up Ellen at the airport Monday afternoon. She’d had a harrowing trip, her first flight having been rerouted to Reykjavik, Iceland, then to Atlanta. She flew from Atlanta to Chicago and then to Indy. I hadn’t seen Ellen in a long time and as old as Ford looked, Ellen looked just as young. I expected she might be a.