"Greg sounded extremely cheerful, and she hoped that it meant that he had some good news for her. Besides that, she just couldn't wait to see him agai....Greg ended up taking her to the park for lunch that day, too. Liz and Shelly just assumed that she was meeting with Jerome again. They didn't know Greg was back, and just then, she preferred to keep it that way. 'My life is complicated enough just now without having to answer their questions, too, ' she thought."So how are you holding up Pretty. “You deserved it, Hernando. Complain again and you’ll deserve more. Now what about vision? Could you see through the foam?”“No!” Hernando was still gasping for breath. “Pale green light everywhere, I couldn’t see shit!” He took in several more full breaths and then with a frightened look on his face cried out, “I’m not getting any air!”Ricardo shrugged. “You’ll get over it. I decided we won’t go down the slide. We’re going to walk back to the pink tower through the foam. We’ll lay kilometers of. "I said, "It looks like it. Those walls are thick and I see sentries at the top." There were sentries all over. This was Sennis. It was near mythological in name when I talked to those on Bejek. The only city with more reverence was the city of Kallos Island, the island was named after it.Sennis must be home to a few million people. The city proper was within the mighty walls and perhaps had a quarter to an eighth of the population. It was hard to tell. The plateau the city rested on was packed. Early in the new year, I had to write a report for work. It was quite complex and I found I couldn’t concentrate on it at the office or at home. So I set up a temporary office in Doreen’s spare bedroom. There was much less distraction and the report writing went well. Doreen would bring me regular cups of tea and we’d chat a bit. One morning, she brought me some tea and, as she stood by me chatting, I put my hand on the back of her knee and started to slide it very slowly up the back of her.