Nervous and excited, I immediately started babbling to them in French, which made them laugh. I blushed and they reassured me that I was very good and...filled a cup with the red wine they'd been drinking... I gulped it down and saw it refilled immediately.We were drunk already, Betty and I, and full of a determination to show them how mature and worldly we were, neither of us resisted when first her guy and then mine slipped arms around our shoulders and began kissing us.My head spun and I was. It gave me control. Moments of attachment with no illusion of permanence. No heartbreak. No vulnerability. It was… I know, Jack. You dont have to explain it. His eyes softened with the smallest trace of a thank you. His father stealing his childhood for so many years before he was put into foster care was not a subject we delved into unless necessary. I just want you to know that none of those girls meant anything to me, if they did I never would have slept with them after only knowing them for. That was basically what they wanted him to do. Instead of speaking aloud, they wanted him to think his statements as output through the implant, then repeat either what they said in translation, or read aloud a printed one that appeared on a screen. When he displayed greater affinity for repeating the audio translation, and they rated him healed enough to accept some input from the second implant, they had him practice talking to either Malcolm or Veronyka while one of them spoke to him in. Add the 132-meter diameter of gym, the 4- meter connection tunnel, the 12-meter diameter of the underground house... That gets you up to... let's see... That adds up to 874 meters to the elevator... another 6 meters to the front door... We've measured about 120 meters horizontal from the front door to the shore line... and about a 20-meter drop... Yeah, it all fits. This cylinder is at the exact center of the island." The angle orientation is correct too," added Cindy. "We think the point of.