”“And you’re a budding engineer. I fucked you.”The boy looked down at his feet, dismayed it seemed.“You’re going to help me,” she said. ...��I need to stretch a large canvas. Eight feet by ten feet. And I need you to build me a kind of scaffolding that I can move around on easily so I can get to every square inch of it. I need to draw on it. I need to work in very close and move over all of it. I’ll pay you.”“You don’t have to.”“Of course I do. But we’ll talk about that later,” she palmed his cock. Its strap had been severed, but she tied it back together, slipped it across her shoulder, and clumsily sheathed the sword into it. Then she bent down, retrieved a necklace with a small gem on it, and put that around her own neck. “With all this rock and no soil, we can’t even bury her,” she said grimly. “Guess it’s the fire for her as well, once Eros’ body’s been consumed.”I sat back down, hard. “What the fuck, Shepherd?”She flexed and cracked her neck. “There always has to be an Enforcer,”. Yeah, just one, for now ... But who knows ... If it’s as much fun as it looks, once I’ve done one, I might do more ... Or I might forget the cameras and just focus on the dogs!”We hover on her optimistic smile for a moment, then Dennis interrupts, “So, if you look down, which I notice you’ve been trying very hard not to do ... If you look down, you can start focussing on a big bad doggy right now!”She looks down, blushing and smiling, hiding her face with one hand, as she takes a good look at. They could have cut across Africa at one fourth this altitude."For those countries that can't begin to retaliate," said Eli, "we don't presume the right to violate their air space. Two hundred thousand feet is sufficiently out of their realm."Then Kelso asked about the craft itself and how it could seemingly hover when the air was too thin or nonexistant for the jet rotors that would hold up the craft.Eli almost beamed with pride as he told them of these magnetic fields around the Earth and how.