I managed to get the dolly under the bike with a lot of effort. Unfortunately, I wasn’t strong enough to push it up the ramp into the truck. I had a...tie-down strap I could use like a winch to pull it up, but that would take a lot of time. So I decided to try getting a running start to push it up instead.I pulled the bike back about 60’ and groaned as I pushed it hard up to jogging speed. The furniture dolly hit the ramp with a sharp blow that rocked the pickup and almost slowed me to a halt.. We sleeptogether, that's all. We haven't done the husband and wife thingsince we got up here. You are so tied up in this place you are ineffect married to it instead of me. I don't want to take your dreamaway from you so as I see it some changes will have to be made. Ifyou can agree to them I will stay. If not I am afraid I'll have todo what I have to do." "What changes are you talking about?" "Well, first I want to get paid like the rest of the staff. Idon't like asking you for money every. “Is that how unity is achieved?”“Seems to work for most; democracies work well enough at planetary level but not so much at interstellar numbers, too many different factions and worlds left feeling unrepresented. That’s why I have planetary High Bureaucrats and Governors running individual planets and answering to the High Bureaucrats here.”“So they have a stable focus for loyalty and a single point of complaint if things go wrong?” I chuckled.“Pretty much it. They know the rules are the same. If I ever do meet him, I want to look into his eyes with confidence.Elaine smiled to herself, her gaze focussing on a single, twinkling light, set alone in the hills.God, his eyes... C'mon, think!I'd have to meet him and get to know him, to see what he was like and to connect with him. And we'd have to be attracted to each other.Interested friends. Then again I could just meet him and fuck him.Elaine laughed at her audacity. Amusing herself, she ran with the thought.He'd be perfect. He's from.