“Have a seat, Sir.”The general walks around you, pulls out an upright wooden chair, and sits down. From there he has a lovely view of your back an... your curvy behind. I let him enjoy the sight for a while as I take another sip of my scotch.“Right, honey,” I say. “The general would like you to lie on his lap. Face down.”You hesitate slightly – then walk to his chair. Carefully, you place yourself across his uniform pants – your legs on one side of the chair, your arms on the other. You turn your. .." Chandra tried."Look!" said the other, "if you assume a brane thickness of 200nanometers, like we proved at Fermilab, the change-of-state transitionwill take about two seconds!" B..." was all Chandra got out this time."No way!" a third physicist broke in, "we proved that whole idea wasbased on faulty math at Bell Labs during the first run-throughs. Lookat the Barney Project!" Yeah, that was a BIG success..." the other said dryly."Barney?" Shannon whispered to me."Yeah," I whispered back,. Cambridge, Essex, December 4thSomewhere down in the hallway, the clock gently ticked the minutes away, the last echoes of the midnight chime fading as Caerys lifted the lid from the box."Are you sure you want to do this?" Sophie asked, leaning over the edge of the bed to stare at the flat board Caerys had laid out on the floor."What else can we do?" she replied, not looking up, upending the box. "They aren't powerful in the same way as the knife, or the book, but they are powerful." She. As they wandered down the hall he watched from behind as she walked, with that slight sway to her hips. Oh god. I want her so badly, he thought. Soon, soon. Brian unlocked the door for her, and set down her bags inside on the suitcase rack. He eyed the bed by the window, the super king size. Brian tried not to think too much harder on that bed just then, so as not to give any thoughts away to Geneveve. “I’ll see you when you get back this evening, Ms. Hadler, I work late tonight.” “Thank you.