Jean recognize what it might mean. After somewhat contentious discussions the two women agreed that co-authorship of the paper was acceptable to both,...and it was so published."A Laser in the Sky!" blared headlines of one of the more lurid tabloids to pick up the story. For so it was. Viewed from a reasonable distance anywhere along its latitudes, such as Earth, Chen's nova was merely interesting. But from each pole emanated a narrow ray of such intensely focused radiation that it would carry. She still evaluated things and responded like she was thinking. I was just able to influence her thoughts, direct them the way I wanted. I had read that you couldn't make someone do something they didn't want to do. So my goal was to make her want to do it my bidding as much on her own as possible."On three you will wake up feeling refreshed and will not remember that we had this conversion but everything will happen just as I have suggested. One, two, three." She woke up as if no time at all. “You are sadly mistaken, young lady.”Just then a car horn blared from out front.“That’s my date, get out of my way.”Ken put his hand on her shoulder and stopped her. “You stay right here. Don’t you move an inch!”Ken turned and was out the door. In the driveway was a little white Honda Civic. Ken got to the driver’s side of the car and saw Brit’s date. He was some sort of scraggly-ass, dirty white boy, wearing a baseball cap turned to the side with obviously fake gold chains around this neck.. You notice how small my hand is in yours andhow good my subtle perfume smells."I'm sorry I wasn't here when you arrived," I say. "I hope Robbi keptyou entertained?"You mutter something about him being very entertaining. You don't knowwhat's going on. Is this the same person? Can it be?"I only missed you by about 10 minutes," I say. "Robbi said you had anerrand to run and would be back. He seemed kind of upset aboutsomething, so I went out and bought him a milk shake before he went hometo our.