"Alpha 1 to Beta 4. Nick, I'm going to need your expertise here. Have Georgia relieve you and get over here." I'll be right there Joe. Georgia is here...in the op center; I'll be there in 10." Nick replied as he rose up and snagged an electronics toolkit from the counter nearby.Nick hurried though the main cavern. He bounced up the steps of the apartment building and found Joe and the others in the bedroom.Joe pointed at the hole in the floor of the closet, "That is Dumitrescu's bolt hole. It. The colonel looked at Frank and gestured silently with a head motion toward the door for him to see who was interrupting, returning his attention to the scene. Frank got out of bed, opened the door cautiously to partially block his nudity. The voice that sounded from behind the door was none other than the Inn's proprietor looking for his nephew who hadn't been seen in over an hour after he was charged by the kitchen with delivering room service to the colonel's suite.Frank lied and said the. It could barely be called light, but about the same as it usually was. He wasn't sure if the days were getting longer or shorter, but he was waking with the sun on the same point on the horizon. Come winter, he'd probably be very well rested if that continued."Oh... !"The female groan drew a sigh from the boy. He was the first out of bed, but never the first awake. Alice and Tom were usually doing their thing, shadows sometimes seen inside the green tent. Sometimes Zak would pause to watch,. . It was time for that to change.“Will you tell me your thoughts on sexual intercourse?”“Sure.”“What are your thoughts on sexual intercourse?”“It’s a big deal.”“How so?”“You should only go all the way with someone you’re really serious about, y’know?”“Will you tell me why you won’t go all the way with me?”“Uh huh.”“Why won’t you go all the way with me?”“Because we’re just fooling around.”Interesting. It would be easy enough to have Marcie really fall for me, but a whole lot of baggage came.