”I smiled and shrugged as I checked the reactions of Mom, Helen, and Marie. I reached behind me, untied the string at my back and neck, let the top ...all as I pushed the bottoms over my hips and stepped out of them. Standing naked, again. We put our clothes into a pile, took up the leashes and once again started for the gate out the back fence. I noticed immediately that the path was cut back and nicely graded. The path down to the lagoon included rough steps and switch-backs to keep the grade. 'Trees'?" said Gabriele. And thereafter followed another round of gaping. She had not known that a plant could get that big.There was so much she didn't know.Only once was she involved in a military action. It was chancy and surprising. She, with Marcus hovering near her as always, was standing in the shade of a tree which dominated a hill, its branches blocking out the life-giving sun; she watched the grass, watched it wave in the wind. It was mesmerizing in its way, the shifting and sliding.. ” I chuckled.Nancy laughed, “That’s the opposite of you, if you think about it. You never thought I would. But now you know I would.”“And you believe hands-on experimentation is required?”“Somebody has to be first, and I’m willing to take the chance. You know, If you change your mind, I’m the next in line... ““Please kill me now!” I laughed. “My sister loves ABBA. I really don’t like them very much.”“Have you heard their song Rock Me?”I nodded, “Sure. Liz played that song often enough.”“It’s. We were sure that the Holorins would gladly welcome our intervention in their slavery.Our surgeons had been working as fast as they could to install the communicators in the brains of all the humans in the new army. This now gave us a pool of recruits for our shock troops. Training had gone so well that it was decided to try this attack without using any of the original Retro Team members. We Retro Team members were unhappy about being left out of the game, but realized that it had to happen.