She gave me a sly smile and giving me a short peck left the room. I changed back into my shorts and came out to the hall to watch someT.V. The maid wa... busy cooking lunch and Radha was giving her instructions. Every time she would pass me she would throw a kiss at me or wink. There was nothing worth watching on the idiot box so I went back to my room. I was just thinking about what had taken place last night when Radhaentered the room with a glass of cold juice. She bent down and kissed me. Even in her early thirties she had noticed that successful plunders were becoming hard to come by, and even riskier to sell. By her late thirties the tombs had all but dried up, and the bills on croft manor had begun to pile up. She had managed to steady the ship for a while by flaunting her body in men’s magazines, but they will only pay so much for a pair of less than perky middle aged tits, even if they were attached to a minor celebrity. Her fall into the underworld came quite naturally.. ” She hurried off to the cafeteria.Arthur looked at me. “I honestly more than half way thought you weren’t serious about the way things were here. I’m glad to see I was wrong.”“Piper, yes, he did. They’ve been isolated here, so some of our surface practices can be problematic regarding sanitation and hygiene, similar to Vault 81, actually. Arthur, you should know better by now.”Allie led us through the rest of the atrium, into and then through Advanced Systems. Several people stopped to watch. Although Liz might give me grief about ‘running away’, I felt I had legitimate reasons.I thought back to a conversation I’d had with my mom during the Fall of my Freshman year when she’d suggested I get away. She’d mentioned Gettysburg or Mammoth Cave, but at this point, even McKinley seemed a world away. Suddenly, the small town of West Monroe was no longer comforting the way it had been, and I DID need to get away.And, in reality, McKinley was my home. I lived there, now basically year-round,.