She has had a lot of pressure put on her since she was achild. She is as strong as a lion when her friends or family are inneed but as far as her own ...elf is concerned she is very vulnerable." Please tell what I can do, Aaran?" David was almost pleading. "I don'twant to push her into anything she doesn't wish to do but I need toknow what went wrong." David, you haven't done anything wrong. Believe me. It's justcomplicated. There are difficulties in her life that she had toovercome. Until she. It was a trend that would only last a short while in my opinion.I was willing to bet as soon as Iran came to grips and analyzed the things that had gone south with Balthazar, the two agents in South Africa and now the three off the Alvan, they would double down on their attempts to get into our defenses.Ben was reporting a decline in net traffic from Iran that I was sure was from a temporary stand-down order from the IRG until they figured out how and how much of their intelligence gathering. Let me describe the computer for a minute. It's a screen, mounted in the wall, and there's a keyboard on a shelf under it. The computer is at the far end of this chain that's attached to my foot.Did I mention this goddamned chain on my foot? I have welts all around my ankle from it, it's been on me for two weeks, and it's hurt ever since the second day. The cuff has a cute little padlock holding it shut, and is just loose enough to turn around, but not to move up or down, or get my fingers. Orgies are fine with me, by the way, so long as I'm not obligated to join in; it's one of the reasons everything we have is leather: it's easy to clean. As expected, Tink was the center of attention although where I saw a pretty young woman, I think these sharks saw nothing but dollar signs; but such is business.I gave my obligatory welcome aboard speech; blah-blah-blah, happy to have you; yada-yada-yada, everything is here for your pleasure except the girls, Brian and me; play nice, have fun,.