....It’s 6:49pm now and I’m starting to worry. Maize is usually back from college by five, six at the latest and still I haven’t heard a peep. I...try to calm my nerves, pace from room to room, check and recheck my phone hoping for a call or even a text. Nothing. “Relax,” I tell myself. “It’s only a few blocks away and she knows not to walk home alone.” ...........................The clock is reading 8:27pm when my phone finally pings with a message. I almost trip over my own feet in the haste to. Everything from explaining the instrument panels in the cockpit to incidents and weather that occurred on various flights. Tucker was so interesting and was rapidly arousing my curiosity more and more. An arousal causing me to want to know him more intimately............I was sexually fantasizing about him. He was so intellectual with anything he talked about and so health conscious and physically fit. His age was totally not a factor. To him age was just a number that he did not keep. Security guards escorted them into the main house, then out the back and out to the eastern guest house. Thule assumed they were Vandevoorts. But, there were a fair number of Asian men mixed in with them. From previous surveillance, Thule had wondered who these men were. They dressed immaculately and were preceded by their own security--men in black uniforms who arrived in black vans. As they climbed out of their vans, they collected in a cluster off to one side of the front steps, not mixing. " More or less," I said, "though things didn't unfold *quite* the way thehistory books would have you believe. As for me, I was 21 years old,pretty full of myself, and had left my birthplace in what is now Polandseeking adventure with my friend Thanasi and my young wife, Marinna...."GAUL, 451AD."They say he was knocked from his horse during the fighting today andwas crushed beneath thousands of flying hooves," said Thanasi, absentlywiping away the blood oozing from a cut above his left eye.We.