I needed her to call for help. I told her to go into my kitchen and use the phone on the wall to call 911. She went inside. But as soon as she walked ...ast my doorway I ran in after her and stopped her. She was petite, so small. She needed me to take care of her. She wanted me to. She loved me. I knew others wouldn't understand, so I locked the door, that way they wouldn't be able to tear us apart. I unplugged the phone in the wall before all of this anyway, so even if she came in and dialed. She had felt intellectual and physical energy surge within her thisevening for the first time in who knows how long, and had played devil’sadvocate to Cory’s stance until his factual base overcame her knowledgeof the subject. Declaring a truce until such time that she could runover to the library to read up on Anaximander’s supposed theory ofevolution, Oriana grinned and clasped Cory’s hand in laughing formality.Such beautiful hands he had. Long, straight fingers, shiny. .." Speaking in weird tenses DOES make your head go screwy sometimes...butwe'll just simplify it." So will you have written any time-freeze involving US?" Yeah, but it won't be THIS reality. It'll be another reality thatsplits off the next time we watch the Dimensional Monitor." Huh?" The reality split begins when we next watch the Monitor because theviewing will be of the time-freeze story I write about us all. Very funand erotic stuff it'll be."Cerina paid the check, and left in the limo. The presentation continued for the entire three days allotted. After the first day, many of the Senior Wizards didn't return, as they weren't interested in the nuts and bolts of how it was done. Knowing that it was possible was enough for many of them.The men who would actually be involved in the book printing trade were there as early as possible each day, and stayed until we were all worn out. They had myriad questions on everything to do with printing: presses, type, paper, ink, procedures,.