” She glared at Barocca, barely resisting the urge to inflict more v******e on her. "For your information Barocca, the default setting on these is...'stun'. They can be set for lethal levels, but it's done manually, and that's more difficult than you think. But I wasn't going to take a chance and let you hit me in the head at point blank range, even on 'stun'. So I played along with you." "All right, this explains a few things," muttered Dee Dee. "But what the hell were you and Barocca. "Our conversation turned to easier topics for a while before we decided it was time to get home.Suzette's mother must have seen us pull in because she was on the porch before I could exit the car.I told Suzette thanks for the ride and I waved at Mrs. Crawford, who didn't wave back I might add.I was in the back yard a couple of evenings later when Suzette came over and sat down. She was wearing a light sundress and she had on makeup for the first time since I'd met her. Not a lot, but enough to. The moment had come at last."Camera!" the director ordered. Robert squared his shoulders. His deep,chiseled chest stood out, tan and muscular.Stella felt gooseflesh rise along her arms and on the nape of her neck,and her nipples poked against the thin silk of the robe that, in lessthan a second, she would doff."Action!" Howard commanded.Robert's head turned toward his leading lady.Stella let the robe fall to the carpeted floor. My future's over, shethought miserably, even before it starts!The. However, as we could now use magic fully, having turned off the dampening field emitting from the tower, we were able to illuminate the area around the portal and soon had our bearings as we trudged over the thick matted vegetation that covered every square inch of the planet.“Amazing,” Hermes murmured. “Just whereabouts are we?”“A planet orbiting Kepler 62 in the constellation of Lyra,” I replied. “It’s 1200 light years from Earth, has a mass at least 2.8 times that of Earth, and has a radius.