" Then I waited another five seconds for the satellite delays to work themselves out – a previously agreed pause -- and hit the small button on my r...dio transmitter.I didn't even hear the poof of the mini-explosion, but the entire area around the manhole overhead went dark.#17, Way of the People, ShanghaiAt 1834.05, the building went dark for a fraction of a second. Then the generators in the basement kicked in and power was restored. The computers in the main room flickered, went down briefly,. The wider nostrils and slightly backward sloping forehead were from his aboriginal heritage, and he carried these features well as they blended with his Caucasian heritage.Many would consider him a handsome man in the prime of his life at thirty-five years. Among the people of the region he was living in, he was considered a little giant. Apparently, there had once been a race that was over 3m tall, but they didn’t exist on this continent.Allan had to have the new building built onto the side. “How do you play?” she asked. “Well it’s for girls who aren’t afraid of making out and doing other things . . . for 7 minutes in a closest with a boy,” he explained. Then there was silence. She certainly would be interested in kissing her handsome uncle, but the “doing other things” kinda concerned her. But she figured what could happen in 7 minutes!“I’m willing to play, if that’s ok with you. But who keeps time?” she asked, trying to act more grown up. It’s at that point that her uncle takes. Besides, he could read the air and temperament of each company and, as a result, an imminent sense of crisis brewed inside of his stomach.It was not something detectable by Soul Sense or any other of the five senses. Rather, it was a shift in the worldly dark attribute, like it was reacting to an opposing attribute being used domineeringly or maybe a summons by an unknown entity. Regrettably, Zax’s familiarity with the dark attribute was insufficient to discern which was the case or if it was.