” Very slowly, she did what he told her to do. It felt incredibly awesome she thought as once she took hold of it and held it lightly she looked up ...o make sure he was okay. He was. He was smiling at her. And he said “This could be a more enjoyable you know.” “What do you mean?” she said. “We could go and lay down somewhere. You know…in a bed?” he told her. “Oh nooooo I uh don’t think so,” she said. “I’m not umm like that.” “Sure you are. You just don’t know it yet,” he told her. She pulled. ”“It’s a well kept secret, just like the vast majority of humans don’t know that Scyftans are among them.”“Oh.”“Even if we found a dragon, it would easily be able to keep you out of its mind, however. As far as I know, there are only two ways to scan a dragon. The first is to be a lot older than you currently are. Mindspeak gets stronger and stronger as you get older, and eventually you’ll be able to go through a dragon’s shield like it isn’t even there. The other option is to bargain with one. ”“I was,” I admitted. “I expect a certain level of professionalism from people. I expected a reporter asking that question would have done their homework, and known that the bottleneck on production was the assemblage and integration of a variety of custom materials we were making on site. Outsourcing fabrication would not have sped up production; it would have delayed it by having to transport partial assemblies to other places for final fabrication. A professional would have investigated. I was laying in the hot tub when Tatumas came in, she obviously knew I was in there and had made a plan. She told me that Kumi and her other two daughters had gone into town to do some shopping and that they would be gone for a couple of hours.She asked me if I would be able to help her open the club and generally be around at 12 o’clock if they had not returned yet. I told her that was no problem and that I would make sure I was available. She then asked me if she could join me in the Hot.