That however has changed with the information we are getting here.”“Anything on their Adept?” I asked.“No, John. He and his senior staff are p...otected against scanning from this creature, though if we were to use brute force, we could do it.”“Let’s not, that would leave evidence behind.”“It would indeed, John.”It was almost an hour later that the three Seers confirmed that both the creature and any Orcs that they could safely scan within the base had been drained dry.“We can fool it into. “Further! Further!” she gasped.That was really slippery. It felt wonderful. I moved my fingers around. She gasped again. I thought I hurt her and started to withdraw.“Don’t stop! Do it harder and faster!” She squealed.As I did she was gasping for air. My thumb touched her at the top of the hole and she grabbed my wrist.“Do that again!”“Again!”Now she was hopping on the bed. I later discovered she was having the first of the afternoon’s climaxes.She held my hand still, and gasped for air, and. . or maybe it was Shaka Zulu. Either way, I felt that I'd not only left an enemy behind, but given him the key to our war room.Anderson and I'd mainly just ignored each other for all of Thursday though there had been some glowering across the Thanksgiving table when no one was looking. Shortly after dinner, Rachel and he had left; evidently he had to get back to school for football practice early Friday morning. I watched Jean as they drove away feeling strangely unfulfilled and empty. The. Once I found it I pulled off several pieces of paper towel from the roll and got a couple of them wet. When I took them back to Skip, I first offered her one of the wet ones. "I thought you might like to clean up a bit before we went in." I didn't want to tell her I was concerned somebody in the bar might think I was the one who gave her the fat lip.Carefully she placed the wet towel against her lip and held it there. When the towel touched her face she winced in pain. She tried to wipe as much.