. No, what theFEM-BS does is search for alternate realities that match parameterinputs and focuses those realities onto our own." Isn't that dangerous..." Phthth, no!" Bunnie said, dismissively. "Here, I'll turn it on.Behold!"Pixie tensed and squinted her eyes in anticipation. Nothing happened.Bunnie flipped the switch a few more times, then hauled back and kickedthe machine."Stupid pile of crap!" she said as she started to repeatedly hit the orbwith her wrench. "Why does nothing ever work! . I had never been to one and always wondered if it was like you read about. When I told them I didn’t have a partner to take, Dee said she had one for me. All I had to do was show up the following Saturday and my date would be here. I couldn’t get over everything that happened at Dee and Clay’s. This swinging stuff didn’t seem right. I really wondered if they would be honest with each other. The following Saturday I showed up at their house and when I went in, there sat my old friend Ellen. She. " No, he's Bulgarian. I don't know his name. I've never heard him called anything but The Bulgarian. And he didn't make me the offer, the Federal people did. They said I could testify and they'd protect me or they would make it known that I'd been talking to them. Trust is a very fragile thing with people like him. He would have had to assume that I'd become a liability." Daddy, tell me this didn't have anything to do with Mom's death." No! Honey, that was just a horrible accident. One thing. The thought that I had missed some critical clue bothered me deeply. I was a very detail oriented person and I had missed one and possibly several crucial details. This thought was one that made me start drinking.I spent three months getting hammered every night and then trying to function at work the next day. It all came to a head when my program manager called me into his office. My program manager had been a D.I. in the Marine Corps and at times ran our group as if we were a class of new.