He even let Laura kiss and hug him. It was if he had known her all of his life. Somehow I was not the least bit surprised.During our talk, I told Laur... how I rescued Socrates, but in much greater detail. Then I told her some very unpleasant and disturbing things about her mother. Things that I was sure that Laura did not know about."What do you know about your inheritance from your grandfather, Laura? Do you know any of the details?" "Only what mother told me. She has Power Of Attorney, and I. "Oh, well," I thought as I turned out the flashlight. "I guess I'll just wait in the dark until she gets back."I don't care who you are, the total blackness of an underground cavern is an eerie experience. Your eyes never adjust, simply because there is no light to adjust to. Outside, even on the darkest of nights, there is always some ambient light. But here, forty or fifty feet below the surface, there was none.At first, I had to keep resisting the impulse to turn my flashlight back on,. ”“Liked them? I loved them.”Ed didn’t know what to say, so he changed the subject. He asked, “Are we still on for tomorrow?”Kelly answered, “I was thinking that you might come to my place and I would cook us dinner. Do you like steak?”Relieved, Ed answered, “I love steak.”Kelly said, “Great. Oops, I’ve got to run. A patient is calling. See you tomorrow around six, okay?”“Sure.”“Bye.”“Bye,” answered Ed even as she hung up the phone. He stood there for a moment trying to decide what to do. Happy. The sweet, pungent odor of the fruit, while pleasing to humans, was almost too much for the sensitive noses of the visiting Nbaru and they stayed away from that area as much as possible. The Nbaru had originally been against the citrus trees, but when April had intimated that the scent and juice of the fruit drove human women into frenzies of sexual abandon, they'd relented.So in a small bunker beneath the courtyard, where the original occupants had stored gardening implements, the women of.