What time is it?"A pause; and then he sat bolt upright in the bed:"Good Lord! Sorry! No; we'll come down right away."Dorothy stirred, and asked an uni...telligible question."We've overslept, love," he said, wryly."Better jump to it; I think they want to clear the tables."They made a hasty toilet, and dressed quickly. Fruit juice and coffeesoon performed miracles of revival, and they left the restaurant andwent to sit in the lounge. Laurence suggested:"I thought we might go off on our own, today.. She is also thought to be a sadist and master at torture.”“It seems to totally go against their actions,” Spencer comments. “But they do seem to be pretty organized to pull something like this off. They are obviously not going at it alone.”“So where’s their funding coming from?” she asks. “Kloser is clean as a whistle.”“It’s always those types you have to worry about,” he answers. “What is known is that they have had funding from several private investors.”“If you can call them that,” Sam says. One even helped me get it plugged in. I checked the reading history as well as the library. I always deleted stories from the reading list when I finished them, but I kept them in the library.I was only a little surprised to find a pretty big selection of brother-sister incest stories. Most of the stories were coming of age type stories with a few of the military and time travel stories that I’d enjoyed. What was missing from V2’s list that had been in V1’s list were do-over stories. Well, why. The hot coffee combated with the cold air, but the liquid was losing the battle.An owl flew past with the whisper of huge wings beating the air. William paused to watch it pass overhead; a dark shape against a dark sky. He continued his journey thinking that the owl had passed without trace while he left footprints in the thin snow. It was a minor mark in his history however temporary that record might be. The thought flashed through his mind that it was a wise old bird that could move through.