. hadn't it been a street a moment ago? And they seemed to be getting farther and farther away so she ran faster and it seemed she was slowly getting ...loser but the sand sucked at her feet and she was getting tired and so, so hot and thirsty, maybe she should go back to the house and wait until it got dark but when she turned, there was no sign of the house and she'd left no tracks in the sand, so she whirled about and there her parents were, right next to her, still facing away from her, and. "That's because I don't sweetie I thought to myself, I don't even get a sniff of pussy at home. I didn't tell Stella that, just as I would never tell her that it was my choice that I didn't get any at home. Why waste my time on a woman who didn't really want me when I had a host of sexy young secretaries and file clerks I could try and seduce.I got in on a hot dot com when they were all the rage and one day another of the investors, a guy I trusted to know those things, called me on the phone. The retainer you paid the company, while generous, would be eaten up in just a couple weeks in the event we have to go to trial," he said.I nodded, and pulled out a cashiers check. I had stopped at the First National Bank in New York City, and had it drawn up, just this morning."I took the liberty of having this check draughted this morning. I will leave it with you as a deposit, in the event that the case does not get settled out of court," I said and passed it over. It was for five hundred. If there’s resistance, you have my permission to use any means necessary to subdue the enemy. Don’t make too much of a mess though. Remember, you have to live with those janitors.”The aliens chuckled under their full-faced combat visors, green HUDs flaring to life through the dark glass as they activated their onboard computers. Moralez drew his XMH handgun from its leather hip holster, twirling it in his polymer fingers. It was considerably heavier than any model that an unaugmented human.