“Passively.”Smiling Captain Laonize murmured, “So that’s why our systems aren’t detecting anything.”After glancing at Calvin, Rebeca conti...ued, “Basically our systems look for anomalies. It was an anomaly that alerted us to the Durale’s arrival.”“And ours?”“Yes. The arrival both of your task groups was straight forward since you didn’t try to hide your presence by cloaking or reducing emissions. Obviously doing either of those makes detection more difficult, but also shows intent.”“It certainly. We avoided him mostly. As it turned out, Sean spent most of his twenties in the local jail for things like burglary, but I heard he turned things around later in life.One summer morning, Kev and I were heading out to the vines and ran into Sean along the way. He asked what we're doing. "Goin in the woods," we said. "Cool," he said.. not even asking if it's okay.We didn't want Sean to know about the vines. He wanted to go to the caves anyhow, so that was fine. He had something to show us. We. I start to walk away, when Kyle’s mom stops me. “Lanie, dear, we would love it if you came too.” His dad chimes in, “Definitely. We want to get to know Kyle’s girlfriend.” Rick shoots me a look and I can feel myself blushing. This should be interesting. The interestingness starts in the car, where I am sandwiched in the back seat between Rick and Kyle. Kyle has one arm around my shoulders, keeping up the charade for Mom and Dad, and I can feel Rick tensing beside me. He doesn’t look at me or. There were no more than a handful of men seated in separate rows. who obviously wanted their own privacy. I quickly scanned the seats, and led us to an unoccupied row, and led my wife all the way in to the end nearest the wall. As we made ourselves comfortable, and our eyes began to adjust to the darkness, we were aware of the heads of several of the men turning in our direction. Clearly, having a woman walk into a sex movie theater, was not the norm. But having them look was OK, because that.