"What the..." What?" Terisa asked, looking in the same direction as Dawn. "Oh! Hey! That's the arbit ... arborium thing! That's what Mother used to se...d us back here!" What's it doing here?" Talina asked, not understanding what was going on."Well, evidently Elaine caused it to come here, somehow," Darla guessed. "But this doesn't explain why she isn't here along with it." We should get it to University," Dawn decided. "The Praetor might know how to get it to work." Yeah," Terisa agreed. "I felt. Kylie rang Kathy. Kathy rang Fred. Fred rang Roy and Court."Marty's on the prowl," said Court. "Let's get the windows closed, doors locked and curtains drawn."Libby looked at him apprehensively but ran to lock the back door as Court started drawing the downstairs curtains."I need to watch the back of the house," he said."Please don't leave me," Libby pleaded.Court squeezed her hand. "I won't. An upstairs window will be fine."Libby blushed and then giggled. "Come up to my bedroom," she. I had new leads to follow up now that I was in Nowhere Land. I started by entering a reverse phone booth and feeding the list of numbers into the device. In minutes it started feeding back a list of names, addresses, marital status, spouses, children, and even a history of where each man had lived for the past thirty years. There were a few people smart enough to use an Internet phone service that yielded less ready information, but the vast majority had solicited favors from a. Please forgive me."I stared at Jolie for a moment then reached for her and said."No, don't apologize for anything except maybe stopping so soon.'I put my lips to hers afraid of what I was doing only knowing that her kiss was wonderful and I wanted more. I had not committed to anything but the kiss, I was still not sure about living out this fantasy but as her tongue danced with mine I felt my whole body relax and melt into hers. I could feel her heart beating against me as we lingered over that.