"Pardon me, good Furlings," he began."Well, good is a relative term," Hester interjected, "especially where these three are concerned." He was silence... by a much harder smack on his rump from Olivia."Yes yes," the Deer chuckled, "I know all too well what you mean. Anyway, I must first introduce myself. I am Brannel, one of the proprietors of Hot Summer Nights, and we are currently in a minor crisis situation."Teski immediately came to their defense, "Whatever we did, we didn't do it."Brannel. They could just make out the overwhelmed look on itsface... "That toy must be causing a stir..." Ruth chuckled as the otherslaughed along... followed by Lacey saying, "Let's send our messagegirls..." They had correctly guessed its choice of attire and knew itwould need time to think about driving in the 5 inch heels.Simon was trying his heeled feet on the pedals when the phone chimedmaking him jump, noticing the message was marked from Mistress Lacey, heknew he had to read it."Sissy. We are. We started winning and winning and winning. The whole team came together and you could feel the joy and intensity with which they played. They became so close that each player knew instinctively what the other was going to do before he did it. All except Tim. Tim played one inning in the field and came to the plate once each game. Through the first eight games Tim struck out six times and walked twice. He hadn’t even hit a foul ball. In the field, Tim had five errors in the same eight games.. " I hope that it doesn't come to that," Ferro said. The appointment chime sounded on his computer. "Time to go. I'll be down the hall in the smaller conference room if you need me."Two marines with weapons stood guard on either side of the door. Ferro looked at both of them with a slight grin on his face. With his hand on the door knob he said to them, "Welcome to my station. As you may have realized, those weapons won't do you any good around here."He was rewarded with a slight tremor in the.