I thought you’d hate it, too.”“I do,” I said. Another glance sideways, catching horror spreading. “But you’re NOT that. If you were, I wou...d’ve never come back to haul you off the second or third time. But you are NOT that. You’re something very attractive to me in too many ways.”“You always acted like that with me, Tommy. It’s just that underneath that, we both know what I was and I got scared that one day we’d be deeper into this than we are now and you’d roll over and think ‘What am I doin’. If you don’t panic them anymore, you’re our best bet. While we may not rescue the ISSDD project, if you can garner public support, we might restore our other projects.”“Okay, that makes sense, but my returning to NASA doesn’t. The capsule we employ is too constraining to endure for long, and these public investigations and interviews are excruciating. I think an island getaway with nothing besides a cold drink and a warm beach are my best bet. I need to think, to figure out what this means. I. ." I paused a few seconds to let the sweep-second hand of my chronometer to reach exactly 1834 " ... NOW." Then I waited another five seconds for the satellite delays to work themselves out – a previously agreed pause -- and hit the small button on my radio transmitter.I didn't even hear the poof of the mini-explosion, but the entire area around the manhole overhead went dark.#17, Way of the People, ShanghaiAt 1834.05, the building went dark for a fraction of a second. Then the generators in. ?Oh sweetie, if that was the keyhole then you just engaged the deadlock. That was so nice, you were very close to spending the whole night down there. You still might.With the sexual excitement finally dissipating, Sarah’s mind needed to catch up with events. She’d just been given oral sex by a girl! She needed to take a shower and let the warm water clear her mind. She stood up from the bed and stepped over the kneeling brunette and only just remembered in time that Amy was still chained to.