"Well, iffen they don't I can probably show 'em how it's did," he said, and then left.Johnny was barely out the door before Silas sat down beside me a... the table. He had business on his mind and it was a pleasant surprise. We went over the wagon and mule deal again, and after a few minutes I could see that he'd been doing some thinking of his own over the deal.I couldn't figure out why he'd even needed any thinking. There was no way he could lose out. I was buying the wagons and mules and I'd. But his mother-in-law's blouse bow, herlong rubber gloves, her high-heeled black button boots, her thicklipstick and her gorgeously blonded bouffant hair-do meant that heneeded total concentration to avoid a disastrous surge of sexualsurrender. If he were to squirt into her blouse now, after his wretchedloss of control in the lap of her skirt, he almost swooned to think whatwould happen to him, especially since his wife was still in the houseand would take a full part in his punishment.Luckily. ”Narth seemed perplexed.”What would a psionic paddle do differently from a physical one?”Shea blew a strain of her gorgeous hair out of her face and said.”Both our captain and the XO want to know what we have, expect explanations they can understand and make fun of the answers given.”“Oh, yet another sarcastic response. I should have suspected, knowing her attitude towards psionics.”“I just don’t like them.”“Yet they came in handy at Thana Shoo, eh?” Har-Hi said.“You know I still have no idea. Fifteen minutes later, they were headed down the elevator. He had on slacks and a sport jacket and tie; she had on a tan skirt and jacket with a colorful blouse underneath. The skirt might have been a little short for the season but not out of place on her long legs -- she could have as easily been a real estate saleswoman during the day instead of Shaella Sunrise. She drove her car -- she knew where she was going and was more comfortable in the modified Taurus, anyway.He and Shae had not been.