”“I’ll be at the control room in ten minutes.” Keith cut the connection and looked for his clothes.Five minutes later, he entered the control ...oom and settled into one of the chairs. He selected Arif’s incoming message header and returned the call.“That was fast.” Arif chuckled dryly. “A little background first. You know that Peytor Valsihkova had come out here to set up a deep space array, using one of the spares from the Wells as the base unit.”“I didn’t know they had finished it,” Keith said. The stars overhead, burning and unreachable.The rustling continued in her hair. The sound was louder now. Louder because, she realized, whatever was causing the noise moved closer and closer to her ears. She felt a tickling at the entrance of her ear canals, both of them at once. Shapes wormed their way into her earways, squeezing themselves into the tiny corridors. She heard a slight pop as her eardrums were punctured but no felt pain, just the uneasy sensation of something blinding poking. Acouple of them are just too seedy for my taste. One should surroundoneself with tasteful decor, all else being equal. Among my earlyfavorites was Sunshine, because the bar maid was so pretty and so nice.The earsplitting techno music was an appropriate counterpoint for thesubterranean caramel high provided by the house-brand weed, "WhiteWidow". One of those Dutch inventions-home grown in glass houses, likethe tulips and roses which the Dutch grow, bestow on the hostess whenvisiting friends, and. He asked if I was free that night and I said yes with butterflies in my stomach and he gave me his address and phone number and we made the date for 8 at his place.I got ready and left for his place on my bike as he was indeed a couple of miles down the road in north Oakland and arrived at his place. I just wore some shorts and a tee and when I found his place, I knocked on the door. I'm pretty tall and when he answered the door we were looking eye to eye and that was a cool deal for a.