I promise. It took until the second period, but finally she turned and looked back over that perfect shoulder. She was looking for the cotton candy gu.... He was coming down the steps, and as her green eyes followed him down, they found mine. Our eyes locked. It was just the thing I needed. As the energy flowed between us, I pulled us out of time. Understandably, she was confused. Part of my game is to act just as confused. She felt we were both in the middle of something that we didn’t. I was often playfully teased by oneof my employees, Michelle, a nineteen year old sprite with a nicefull figure. She liked to jump on my back and mess up my hair.I'd joked many times about putting her across my knee, but I wasonly bluffing. It became kind of an inside thing between us."Watch out for Alex!" She once warned a new female employee."He'll take you to the woodshed!"One evening we were closing the store and Michelle was hurryingbecause she was going out with some friends later. In her. . or so I thought.For the next week I could not get her out of my mind. I finally caved on Saturday. I bundled up and went out into the very cold morning. I walked back to where I had met my mystery girl. I 'back timed it', until I found her. I started following her. It took several hours. My hands and feet, as well as my face and ears were numb; but I found out where she lived!The place was several blocks off campus, in a residential area with new apartments. It had gone up a couple years ago.. “One of them is Helga’s cousin Inga.”“The report didn’t say if the farm equipment was diesel, alcohol, or electric,” Don commented.“Half and half,” I replied, understanding that the women would now know what I did last night. They’d know in a few days anyway, once the ships reached Port Fourchon. “There are also a dozen large commercial windmills for generating electricity. We can probably use one here and the rest along the river or wherever we decide to start farming,” I suggested.“We checked.