"After that we will do the physical benchmark testing. This testing willgive us an idea of what you are capable of physically. This informationwill th...n be compared to the post procedure benchmark testing to help usunderstand the changes that the procedure will perform on you."If all goes as planned, you should be free around five or five-thirtyfor dinner, and then free time after that until bed."Tomorrow morning, we will meet again around eight. The Procedure will bestarted at about. The words had also started to not only be understandable, but to have meaning.After a time and more Bourbon, I recognized the words as spells in a foreign language. Eventually following even more time and Bourbon, I recognized the language as Gaelic, but wasn’t sure how I knew that. By then, I was so soused that I could no longer lift the bottle to my mouth, and I dropped it, falling over on my side and passing out.The man who came to many hours later on the floor of the dining room, wasn’t the. He stumbled out of the water, able to see the rainfall out to sea, and watched as the woman held his gaze a bit longer before diving beneath the now-choppy breakers.That night, with the rain hammering at his roof, he wondered if it had been a dream. His uncles in the hills had once shared dreamy mushrooms with him, which made him see things where they ought not to be, but he didn’t experience any flashing colors or shifting shadows when he was in the water. No, it had to have been real, and. Nick liked to think his circle of compassion was fairly wide, but rich assholes who got their employees killed, lied to their families, and treated their networks of high-school age concubines like crap weren’t anywhere near the center of it.It had taken a while to get all the details out of Emily last night. By the time Nick and Pilar found her up on the roof after the performance, she was already pretty drunk and wracked with unearned guilt.The story Nick had eventually been able to piece.