"I'm telling you Hiapo, it's open! Just like old times!" Lois blinked at the open path before her and felt like pinching herself. She was dimly aware ...f the adrenaline flooding her body."So, a year early!" Hiapo called from the blue ring. "Well, it's nothing we haven't planned for. We go with Plan-A. Lois, start heading up. Tal will be right behind you." Okay!" Lois started to paddle rapidly up the tunnel, trailing the comm link wire behind her. Her heart was bursting with happiness. She was. "She pointed in the direction of a land mass we had seen from the beach."Please," Patricia said, with all the poise she had shown among the elite of San Francisco, "be seated. While we are honored by the Kings request, we are nothing special. As my husband tells me, I am merely a woman with a little something extra." Actually," I put in with a smile, "She is quite extraordinary, although I may be the only one who knows just how special she is!"I wasn't aware that you could see a blush under the. I almost ran headlong into a pair of strippers, naked down to theirunderwear save for their aviator glasses and cop hats, with little fakepolice badges pinned to their bra straps. They must have been here to makesure everybody was having a good time.I ducked down into the crowd. Shit. If they noticed I wasn't having funthis whole thing was going to be ruined. I could not afford to get arrestedat this stage in the game. I had to sneak around behind them and get outbefore they could see. “I think after the altercation at the restaurant you followed the defendant and his friends until they pulled over. That’s when you attacked them. They were trying to defend themselves when Officer Dugas showed up and got involved.”, he accused. “Sir, I’m not sure what you have been told but there was never any altercation at a restaurant. In fact, there is a timecard at the gym which shows what time I left that night.”, I replied. The timecard comment seemed to disturb him for a moment causing.