A little after one in the afternoon, five hours ’til check-in. He looked at the woman once again and shrugged, then took his briefcase and walked ou... into bright afternoon sunlight toward the beach. He crossed the street and made his way to a small stand renting cabanas ‘by the hour or by the day’ and turned to look back at the bar. Nothing. He knew he couldn’t let up his guard – not for one minute – but there was a part of him that wished this would all be over soon. He couldn’t run for the. Libby spent the rest of the evening trying to muster enthusiasm for her date, while paying her carny-crush no mind. She clapped hands and cheered when a band called Sidewinder kicked off the evening. Bathed in red and blue stage lights, she bounced on the balls of her feet till sweat trickled into the cleavage of her tightly-sprung bosom. To hell with who was watching.Jonathan had gone to fetch drinks, when Jared spoke into her ear. “Looking hot tonight, Lib. Glad you took my hint. Time you. I’m pretty sure she’s really smart, but she told me she hated school. I don’t think she ever went to college. I’m not even sure she finished high school. But she’s got midwestern beauty, you know, great cheekbones, blond hair, clear skin. And an amazing body, though she’s not stacked, or anything. She’s definitely from somewhere in the midwest. I get the sense, though, it was from the wrong part of town.”“Trailer park trash?”“No, not that either. At least, I don’t think so. But she sure as hell. . and that's the inhabitable ones. With these big stars, everything is to scale."Think of earth as a quarter and NML Cyngi is 721,875,000 times that big," suggested April. "Or ... the sun is 11 feet in diameter and Cyngi is three miles. These big ones don't last very long though ... Sol is 13 billion years old and expected to last maybe seven to nine billion more ... Cyngi might last four or five million before Nova and collapse into a yellow dwarf ... she may end up just like Sol ... we.