The conical one... is heavier by far. We think it must have lead in it. The materials are like nothing we have ever seen before, and mana does not pen...trate through to peer inside. We are reluctant to simply drill, not knowing what is inside."Avatharel nodded absently. He was already examining the cylinder with a fine mesh of mana settling over the surface. As he tried to penetrate the surface with it, the mana was reflected and scattered randomly. Avatharel knew of no solid object that behaved. From the turn off it was about 20 miles of dirt road but Rob thought it would be safer than going the longer but quicker way by pavement. The quicker way only had about five miles of dirt. The paved roads seemed to be patrolled more heavily than the dirt roads. Rob wished the patrols were the state police.The patrols seemed to all be unshaven men in civilian clothes and heavily armed. Rob and his family had passed several vehicles in the last two days that looked like they had been forced from. I asked Jason to do the bidding. To my surprise he declined and said, "You face the auctioneer and I will face you. I will tell you when to bid but you are doing the bidding. Do not bid unless I nod to you."While we were waiting for the auction to start Chuck Rustone from QT Banking and Trust - the bank we had used to buy the gym and where I had my personal checking account - came over and we talked. Mostly it was about Jake and how he was doing, when I was expecting him to come home. I did not. She looked down at her right-hand desk drawer, her ‘secret stash,’ as she referred to it. Even though the door was locked, Meagan instinctively looked around her suite to be sure no one was around, and pulled a key out from underneath the desk blotter. Trancelike, Meagan put the key in the drawer and opened it up to view what was inside.Meagan had been blessed with an abnormally high sex drive and her ‘secret stash’ contained some of her favorite sex toys - dildos, vibrators, plugs, lube -.