A door opened and a ramp extended. It was dark enough outside now that the people inside the shield could see flashes of fire coming from the barrels ...f weapons the Marines were firing toward them. The crowd panicked and attempted to find shelter from the hostile fire. Many ran toward Glorious, others dropped to the ground and yet others just stood stupidly in their fear. If not for the shield many would have been killed or injured. To their consternation and relief, however, there were other. That wasn't too smart of you."Director Ridge was shocked. "You. I. I mean. Jesus Christ,you're probably absolutely right, Ms. Bakhtiar. I guess I'mnot as clever as I thought I was." Worse than that, professor," answered the vaguely ethnicbroadcast maven, "you keep calling me 'Rudi'. You ought toknow from the piercing quality of my interviewing that I amreally Wolf Blitzer. Rudi and I swapped bodies last week."Yosemite drew heavily on a beer and switched to a differentchannel."CRXX was at the. "Make the most of it, darling," said Bill. "Sally'll be coming back sometime this weekend." And Wendy'll be discharged at some stage. Let's indeed make the most of it."It was another five minutes before Bill delved in the freezer and found a lasagne that could be micro-waved from frozen. He poured them both a drink which they took through to the drawing room. They had hardly sat down before the telephone rang. Bill answered it. It was his mother."Darling," she said, "I tried to ring you. I couldn’t get over the smell! We stayed like that for at least an hour as I dug my nose in oh so deep! The Lycra was so tight! You could hear my muffled cries of pleasure underneath him as I smoothed my hands over his shiny arse.Finally I asked him to climb off me. I knelt in front of him and held his hands.‘There’s something I’ve always wanted you to do,’ I smiled coyly . I looked deeply in his eyes, stroked his forehead and asked him if he would let me record him so we could make Ray.