Destructo, and you city will be destroyed,unless Aries meets my demands! Come to City Hall, oh great Commander, ifyou dare!" The TV blinked out."I sh...uld go help, Sarah. Maybe you take Yaddie and get somewhere safe." Okay, Fluke. Here's the keys to my car. Good luck." A rather ironic statement, all things considered."They popped out.I put on my "costume" and drove toward City Hall. When I got there,Commander Aries was fighting a giant robot. He looked like he was havingfun, so I snuck around,. . to the world," she qualified. "Dac, these are the people who love you and whom you love. I'm not trying to argue, and you know how much I want to be with all of you, but what changed? I can't disappoint Roya and Sheel, I love them too."I smiled, appreciative of her devotion and commitment, "Actually," I said with admiration, "It was Roya and Sheel along with Treeya that convinced me to come get you, although I must admit it didn't take much convincing." But..." She started to argue.I stopped. My other close bonking buddy is a married woman with the unusual name of Hortense.I like to call her Ho just to see her look of annoyance at my lack of respect for her need to be placed on a pedestal of feminine mystique. She is so prim and proper that I draw great pleasure at humiliating her with little tricks that make her squirm under my tutoring.Ho is the sort of woman that spends a lot of time in front of a mirror and she loves to keep every single strand of hair in its proper place. I. Since I know so much about you and you know nothing about me, I’ll give you a crash course, Melanie 101. It will take about two hours or so. You got that kind of time?”“Sure, I’ve got all day! What’s this crash course?” Really, I had nothing else to do and wasn’t in a hurry to get home to my wife who was just counting down the minutes to Four O’Clock so she could start drinking.“Hang on a minute,” she said as she slipped out of bed. There was none of that ‘oh I need to be covered with a sheet’.