”“Totally. Too bad I’m taken.”I gave Randy a subtle wink and he bit his lip. Randy led us into his office. He closed the door and locked it. R...ndy had the biggest office in the company, for good reason. He even had a bathroom in it that he put in himself. “Isn’t this a little risky?”“Oh, it’s very risky. But that is what this is all about. I want to take risks with you. I love you. I’m an older gentleman and I haven’t done too many exciting things In my life. I’m ready to do them now, with. Being it was a threat against males and a fairly loony one, no one took it very seriously. Less than 24 hours after the manifesto was released, several hundred devices had released a gender specific virus into the majority of water processing plants and several dozen supposedly benign rockets had been launched into earth’s upper atmosphere for ostensibly scientific research. It was only after the first two weeks when men began dropping dead by the hundreds that the public took notice. It was. About a week after I had made my last trip down to the lower lands, I started noticing an old man walking along the shore during the early mornings and evenings. What his exact age was I could not guess. While he walked with a noticeable limp, his body was otherwise unbowed from age. His hair was completely white, he had a strong chin, a wide mouth, and stood just less than six feet tall. I would watch him come from the trees, in one direction and enter the trees further down the shore, in the. Third, and what made figuring out the first two easier is a mutual friend gave me a heads up about a young man who he sent wandering with the idea planted on letting the walking guide him to what he needed.”I looked him directly in his disconcerting gaze and asked, “Andrew? He knew I would wind up here?”Arthur chuckled and replied, “No, he didn’t know. He did hope your wandering would bring you here because this place may provide you some on the perspective you need to work through you.