”I laughed back. “My lovely leggy mathematician. Want to do a standard deviation or two?”“Ah yes.”“Harold, I’m actually a quite lusty la...y, but I’ve never had the opportunity to flaunt myself to appreciative eyes. This is liberating for me.“In that case, how about slipping out of that dress and posing as provocatively as you can imagine?She started to yank it off, then slowed, peeling down the top. “See my titties? See my pretty pretty nipples? She pinched and pulled at them, pleasing. I kept my attention on Mom and avoided looking him in the eye. There was a chance he could recognize a time traveler just by looking him in the eye. “I’ll be sure to let you know if the owners ever want to sell.”“Just thought I could make things better,” Joe sneered. “I wouldn’t want anyone else to end up like your dad.”The son of a bitch! He was as much as threatening my family. This was going to stop. I was going to cut off his source of funds or his balls or both.I wasn’t sure yet, but I had. I introduced him to her as my high school friend who I haven't seen since we graduated and both parted ways for collage. He told her that he just moved to town and is thinking about attending one of the local universities.After acting like we were catching up for a while by him making up a life story updating me on his life since collage, they started chatting about one of his made up storiesHe told us a story about how he just broke up with his girlfriend, who he was madly in love with, he. The fighting was mostly individual, with a few small units being engaged as one. This was what the average grunt had signed up for, no more boredom, but the excitement of personal combat.The Militarists had found that the Slayers would not shoot their X-Ray lasers if there was a chance of hitting their own troops, so the trick to neutralizing the tanks was to get in close to the Slayers and not to give the tanks an isolated target. They had rediscovered guerrilla warfare!The Slayers' tanks.