On Tuesday Jerry comes over and invites me to come over that night for a swim. I ask if Randy is coming and he says no. "Bring your brother," he says ...s he leaves and I say I'll see if he wants to go.Jerry's sister looks disappointed when I show up alone. At dusk, Mr. and Mrs. Kinsley go inside and it's just me, Jerry and his sister in the pool. She tells him to get us some Cokes and he leaves us alone. I feel her leg touch mine and suddenly our lips are touching. I don't want her to know this. Jean recognize what it might mean. After somewhat contentious discussions the two women agreed that co-authorship of the paper was acceptable to both, and it was so published."A Laser in the Sky!" blared headlines of one of the more lurid tabloids to pick up the story. For so it was. Viewed from a reasonable distance anywhere along its latitudes, such as Earth, Chen's nova was merely interesting. But from each pole emanated a narrow ray of such intensely focused radiation that it would carry. Darren caught up with the girls as they loaded their prisoner into the Land Cruiser. They tossed Xue unceremoniously into the middle seat and secured her hands and feet with several tough nylon straps that would be too much for even her prodigious strength, once the drug from the 'failsafe' gun wore off.Darren rode 'shotgun' (in the front, lefthand passenger seat), Liam sat behind him in the middle seat, next to Xue. Mei drove while her sister sat on the right side of the prisoner and Sun and. That morning, I took the other path, the higher one, which looks down on such beauty. My intention was to walk to the top of the waterfall rather than the pool below. I was curious to see if the stories were true; that is possible to jump safely off the top of the falls. And also to explore the area behind the falls, perhaps even find a cave behind! It was from that upper vantage point that I saw movement below; surprising, since it was so early on a Sunday morning, when you’d expect everybody.