"That was my first thought too. But Marcus reminded me the Blue Ring tends to quote time in Earth years. In Earth years, we've just turned seventeen."...alea was silent for a moment. "So... next year's Red Bird Festival?" Yes, late winter or early spring next year, right around the Red Bird Festival... Marcus says the coding suggests it'll happen very rapidly, a cascade failure of the memory blocks. We'll get back everything, probably within a single day, maybe within a single moment..."Kalea did. She was anxious to see what had happened to her furniture and memorabilia.There seemed to be sunshine coming from one area to her left. Perhaps there were windows. The colors were lighter, even pastels. Then, just as she thought she could identify a couple of pieces of furniture, she passed out.*****Joanne, the strangest thing just happened. I was in the midst of writing this e-mail when the power blinked, but it was more than that. It was as if there was a sudden eclipse of the sun. For a. Oh God! I was in sheer ecstasy, I was finding release I was on the verge of having my first orgasm for five weeks, when I heard, ‘Oh, excuse me’. My heart almost jumped out of my mouth. I pulled my legs off the table and adopted a fetel position in my chair, with my fingers still in my throbbing pussy and hand clutching my tit, I sat forward until my head was on my lap. I was too scared to look up, but when I did he was not there. ‘Fuck!’ I thought. As the minutes ticked by, I realised I was. She decided to try and gently but firmly pull the cord and see if she could drag the bucket and the table over to her. Her hopes soared as the table inched towards her. She would never do anything this stupid again, she thought. If she could just get out of this mess, she would have learned her lesson.Her heart dropped as the cord snapped away from the bucket. There was no longer anything erotic about this. Cold fear filled her. She kept thinking about each picture and each person on the.