I’m not so in love with my own life to watch others die for me when I know someone can help. Hurry.”Nodding to Kata in respect, Rayner rose his ha...mer and let green light wash over it. When he entered the kobold’s range, he let out a Roar to push back the kobold. He would have followed up with a killing blow but he needed to see if the brothers were OK.They weren’t.The acid acted like fire and had burnt them severely. Rayner’s Battle Cry filling them with vigor must have kept them from rolling. "We might be able to push ourselves into subspace, and wouldn't that be interesting to see!"The offhand comment had come while they were discussing the differences in power demands for the older subspace designs and the new ones they had been theorizing using Gordon's 'new math'. The theory, and Wax saw it in the numbers as quickly as Gordon did, suggested that for small scale objects, with volumes and surface areas which would easily describe all but the smallest and very largest of the known. He asked if he could have the key to unlock himself. She looked up at him and said maybe. He was in shock, he asked why. As she was holding her sons balls in one hand and inspecting the CB3000 with the other she said that he has two choices. First he leaves it on for the next month while she holds the key, and every time he asks to be released will be 10 kicks in the balls and an extra week of being locked up. The other choice was daily ballbusting, but he would be released from. ’‘I have to witness the proceedings, to ensure Mark’swill is respected. I hope you understand.’The house was in a cul-de-sac – an upmarket butotherwise ordinary looking house in a relatively affluentpart of town. She allowed herself a nervous smile. She hadvisualised a gothic mansion. Her fingers kept involuntarilyreaching up to touch the leather collar around her neck.She wasn’t used to being restricted in any way at all. Partof her wanted to tear it off, yet a part of her that hadalways.