With a little help from Miley I had learned that Nora specialized in tuning synchronization protocols and hardware. She particularly trained on shield...systems. However, the chief had her working with waste water systems. I wasn't sure if it was a punishment duty or not, my time in engineering had been relatively limited. The department's politics was not in my realm of experience yet.Walking, I detached my PDA and reviewed the department's priorities to get a sense of what was going on this. No obligations of any kind. Our next ballgame was 56 hours away, the night after next in Johnson City. I gave the tean my standard "don't kill yourselves" speech and let them loose -- telling myself they were responsible adult males.Yeah, right.Just over the thirty minutes I'd allowed myself, I came out of the cinder block shower palace, clean, dressed in an actual suit and tie, and looking civilized.Orlie and Gloria were in casual clothes appropriate for the game, so I stood out some. "Oh,. Kate’s taciturnity had gone well beyond her norm. She’d been driving herself harder than ever, rising earlier, stopping later, and demanding ever greater prodigies of effort from herself. In bed she’d gone from enthusiastic to frenzied, straining to bring him to orgasm twice or thrice every night. Yet she hardly had a word to say about the farm, their labors, their love life, or anything else. It’s only been a year. Maybe I don’t yet know her all that well. He tried not to worry. Maybe the. Should she play it cool? No she thought, why change from being so forward."Well, i'll let you off this once i guess. But just remember im not a woman who likes to mess around ;)". Her finger trembled as she hit send, how would her respond." Well i best not screw up my second chance then had I. How about we go for coffee some time?"Sophie walked out her office, standing near the vending machine where she could see his desk, she replied."Coffee?? Does my last picture on tinder look like a woman.