‘Um, like what?’ ‘That you made discreet inquiries about her with me?’ ‘Oh yes, would you please. Um but very discreetly.’ Two days later ...allum went to lunch late and was at an empty table when Paula came and sat opposite. She said hi and ignoring his bright response said, ‘Why have you been making enquiries about me?’ Callum colored. ‘God you are capable of blushing’ and that turned Callum’s face even pinker. ‘I’m sorry, but as my father says, once a tease always a tease.’ ‘Don’t be sorry. I. My cousins helped me move. My roomie furnished all the furniture. All I had to do was supply my own bed. That was it. Turned out she had a boyfriend over all the time… a different one over all the time. I wasn’t able to get Chad over. But come to find out Chad moved into his own place too. He never told me. I don’t know why either. It never seemed odd that he didn’t but I wondered in the back of my mind occasionally why he hadn’t.Finally I got a call from him. He apologized for not coming to. When she looked up her eyes had changed."We were on a top secret mission and we think we were exposed to something in a lab we were sent to investigate. Whether it was intentional or accidental, we are not sure; but it happened, nonetheless. We have to study what happened to all of us to see if it can be undone, and if it will hurt any children we might have," Jen said in that strange far-a-way voice that she would get when in her trance like state, "Please, can you help us?"Jen dropped her. Seriously, it is proportional to the energy we can impart to that particle as it begins the positive path of its curve; Morg and I have developed a way to recapture about eighty percent of that energy when it returns and the ongoing power requirements are minimised but that first couple of impulses need the greatest power input. At present, the theoretical range will go a bit beyond Maureen's Moon but the energy needed does increase not quite logarithmically but frighteningly close even with.