If your children’s children ever want to establish trade with our people, we’ll always honor the contributions you’ve made in our empires.‘___...______Zita entered the common room, with the usual group sitting around the central table. “Excuse me; I got an unusual message from our Zitorian friends.”Everyone turned, but Eli was the first to speak. “Pray tell, what is it, and might it portend?”“It was a single image, of us alone in empty space.”“That is odd,” Gary agreed, “though I’m curious how. Grooving. Moving. Kicking. Killing.DJ after DJ. Record after record. Mix after mix. Highs. Lows. Bass. Treble. Rhythms harder than a hammer. Sharper than a knife. Like the knives cutting into her soul. Chemical Heaven. Kirsten pushed herself against Paul again, his own top thrown aside, pressing her hot hard breasts against his hot hard smooth chest, his pierced nipple occasionally slapping against her hot hard nipple. They shimmied and swirled and pirouetted and glided. Flesh against flesh.. She had no job, no car, but maybe she could talk to daddy about buying her an apartment and maybe if she begged hard enough he would increase her monthly allowance. Once at the restaurant the boys senseless chatter continued only to further annoy Skye. As the waitress took their order she lashed out at her for being incompetent. I said I wanted no chicken in my salad, Skye fumed, tossing a piece of chicken at the young waitress, Apparently youre either deaf or stupid. The waitress scampered. " Two or three fast mouse clicks transformed the row of digits into a three-dimensional emerald green bar graph twinkling against a black background. "Ahh ha! Got it!" She whooped with glee as she zoomed to the final moments before the line went offline. "See?" she cried the instant the panels' flat-line trickle of sunset power started to spike. "In the final tenth of a second, we captured the first moments of the event." her long slender finger traced the nearly vertical slope of the bar.