.. is he still here?”Diane was beaming, “No, he said he had to leave, but, get this ... he’s going to meet up with us later for drinks!”Now, B...TH of our mouths were like “O’s”.Charlie POV:I found myself in a quandary.Dad and TJ have decided I needed more time with my ‘Family’. At the time, I was glad and couldn’t agree more. However, it feels like I’ve been reduced to a babysitter.Rex, Jeremy and Willie are off trying to combat the evil within the CIA and the ‘Co-op’. That’s fine and they know. They poked at and kneaded her breasts, pinching the nipples to see if they'd get hard. They made her spread her legs and hold her buttocks apart while fingers and walking sticks probed the openings for tightness.Throughout this humiliating inspection they were making comments designed to drive the asking price as low as possible. Franklin, for his part, did his best to point out favorable factors and rebut the detractors."Hmph! Ain't got no tits to speak of!" Next to them mountains yore Elly. He watched as she sized up the group with an experienced eye. When she sat down at the table she kept her eyes locked onto Toms' own. He smiled as he saw that she had nerve. She wasn't loud, but she kept her voice confined to the table. "If it's gonna be all three of ya, it will cost more." Tom could tell that she had character.He looked her over closely. She looked to be a few years older than he was, but he could tell that they had been some hard years. Already she had some lines around her. "And you say it flowed?" Yes." Could it have been a real liquid? Somehow a reservoir of melted snow bursting?" What?! No, of course not! Basel, this thing was alive, acting with intelligence. It darted from behind one tree to behind another!" But you say it's a liquid?" No, just that it flowed like one! Basel, it was flowing out of the gully on your left to attack us! It was flowing uphill!" Ah..."The sun set as expected at 7:12 AM Universal Capital Time. They spent the next hour scanning in.