I'll be twenty tomorrow, Thanksgiving day." Twenty? You don't look a day over fourteen."That produced another playful swing."Did my boobs feel like th...se of a fourteen year old just now?" No, I'll have to agree, they didn't."She gave me a leering look and said, "Watch your back, cousin. I've had a crush on you for ten years and I intend to do something about it now that you're in my clutches."I just laughed. She's just pulling my leg and not really serious."Laugh if you want, but I mean it,. Currently powered down and dead to the world about them, to either side of the room's door, look downright comforting and normal by comparison.Twin sensor eyes the color of tired amber, which had looked upon the face of the first emperor, now studied indicators embedded about the chrysalis dispassionately as Yadon then rotated. Literally facing the chamber due unlike either Azaka or kamadaki to actually having one, of sorts.Attempting some visual conformation of any change in the time freeze. He is considerably stronger than I am. It wouldn't have taken much for him to overpower me if I had let him." If you had let him?" I don't practice as I should, but I am a shodan in judo." So this was business." Yes." Like prostitution."I sighed. "I dislike that characterization, but yes, I used my body to buy an advantage." And that's ok to you?" I shrugged. "Have you totally flipped?" I don't why this is an issue. I do whatever is necessary for the best outcome forKaibaCorp." And you think. In fact, most of those Mounties had Indian wives, or, females they called their wife because all it took in those days was the inclination and not the ceremony.I wished them all well and suspected we might not be seeing each other again unless I ran into some dire calamity and had to skedaddle north to get out of the way of trouble.We started to run into a lot more fences or partial fences and small settlements the closer we got to the coastline. It was beginning to seem like every day was.