A rubber bit gag is pulled into mymouth and locked there by its harness. Another harness is fitted over myshoulders and torso, and I am led out to be...in another day of hard labour.There are days I am just called upon to drag things across the yard andfields, with Her laughter filling my ears. I'll be moving them back towhere they started tomorrow. Chapter FiveThere were days on end that I spent bound out in the pasture on a woodencross. Itching hay was pushed in the tops of my stockings and. "Actually, I'm the boss. I don't have to get out of work. No, I am here for a totally different reason. I represent a group of people with, shall we say, special abilities? We were considering asking you to join us," I told her straight out, putting my device back in my briefcase."You a gov'ment man?" she asked suspiciously."No. I was forced to work for them at one time, but I got free of them. No, I am my own man, and a damned independent one, too. All of us are," I responded truthfully."Hmm.. Having come back to what had just occurred, he smiled and nodded his head in approval. He began to back away, scared that he was crossing a line, when she firmly placed his hand back upon her hips with her free hand. He came back behind her and held her close, taking in as much of her scent as he could without being noticed. She shot more without pause and began letting her guard down with each shot until her hips began to move more with the recoil. She could feel him, and he knew, but she. You are not going to believe it but you'll be fascinated." That place was a research station as well as a production plant. Karuska's new alloy isn't new and won't work. At least not for what he wanted to do with it. THEY had already tried it. It breaks down too fast to be useful in a Mech. They did come up with a compound that would work. Double strength heat sinks should be ready to install in our Mechs within months. How about armor that's even stronger. Four tons of armor that shield like.