I checked the settings last night. I gotta go or it’ll be too late.” Michael turned and sprinted to the elevator. Less than a minute later...the announcer signaled Marty to turn on the scoreboard half-time graphics. He pressed the ‘engage’ button and looked out at the huge score boards, standing five stories tall at each end of the stadium. As they lit up, bringing to life the previously dead-white surface of each screen, his jaw dropped and his brain went blank. . “Can you feel all that sweat there at my toes?”, she sweetly giggled. “Yeah”, I answered with a chuckle of disgust. She took her fluffy slipper and held it up to my face. I could see that it didn’t look as dirty inside as her other one, but there was still a reasonably greyish outline of her foot. “There you go sweetie,” she cutely whispered as she put the opening of her slipper over my nose and held it there. “Have a good smell inside there for me Anthony.” I braced myself and took some sniffs. “Nate, please don’t feel sorry for John. First off, he never really treated me like a person, more like a possession. And can I just add that John doesn’t take very good care of his possessions? Anyway ... And second, and more importantly, you not only treat me like a person, but you actually went to a lot of trouble just to defend my honor. The honor of a total stranger that you didn’t know from Eve, I might add. Trust me; I’ll never ever in a million years forget what you and your friends did. ”I wanted to know that, too. Eric should have been able to take his Damsel into the local bank instead of sailing all the way to Widemouth.Their spokesman said “We don’t know. I have heard that we once had banks in our cities like the mainland cities have. I suspect that they got tired of constantly being robbed.”Huh. If each bank had access to a portal like I thought, no robbery attempt was going to get anything from the bank itself. The bank’s ‘vault’, if it even had one, probably wasn’t on.