”That wasn’t much, but it was probably the best I was going to get. I followed her in and gave a nod hello to Levi, who was working with a small g...oup in one section of the dojo.“Ok, explain to me what it was like the two times you were able to make it happen.”“It’s kinda hard to explain. I sort of focused and felt something click in my head right before the slow motion thing started. Saying something clicked isn’t quite right, I just felt somewhat different. Kind of like that moment when you. ”“I know you do. Here’s the other thing. Before I ask you the question I really want to ask I need to ask one other.“Shoot.”“When we’re in school, or out in public, can you maintain the fiction that we are nothing more than teacher and student? That we have no shared secrets?”“No problem. Now, what was it you wanted to ask me?”“Would you like to fuck me?”Jim said nothing. He stood up, and for a moment – a very frightening moment – Dawn thought he was leaving. He walked to her apartment door,. Then they left the chamber. Balkhor and Messaya remained standing to the sides of the table. As Roban watched them, Balkhor straightened and defiantly returned his gaze, but Messaya avoided his eyes, and looked down at the black ball in her hands.“Go on. The sooner you’re done with the judgment, the sooner we can leave,” Roban prodded.Messaya placed her black ball in one of the scale pans, and Balkhor the white. For a moment the balance lingered, but then the pan with the white ball dropped and. In other words, I didn't know where the fuck I was. I sat there in a filthy alley, leaning up against an old brick wall.I was trying to get myself together when the door in the wall opened and out came a very large gentleman. He looked up and down the alley and then turned back to speak into the building,"That asshole Tony is not back with the car yet, Boss."My foggy brain realized that he was not a gentleman. Actually he sounded like a thug. To my dismay, he saw me sitting there."Who the fuck.