"In here" came from the lving room where he sat, still naked reading a copy of an english newspaper. "Afternoon Earl". "Hello Graham" he returned, a l...ttle confused by the whole idea of oggling a man's wife only to come back to his house and have lunch. Before he'd had enough time to process this strange idea in his head, Pam quipped that "Earl's been plotting to still me from you Gray". He laughed back instantly, "ha, finally. I'd be a much richer man if that were the case". This almost cruel. "Don't worry about it. It was the need forvengeance -- and very little else -- that kept me alive for almostsixteen hundred years!" "And how good did revenge make you feel after you had it? You've beengiven a second chance, Eden. You've got to see that. You can't let themistakes of the past destroy any hope of your ever having a decentfuture."I rounded on him. "My whole existence has been nothing but a patchworkof mistakes and regrets, but this is no time for soul-searching. Ifyou don't. Thank god for manual methods. She shuddered and hoped it would never come to that.“Acceleration is within limits,” Sijay reported, “but I have to steer this thing like an old bus. Can they balance the power better?”“I’m trying, Sijay,” Keith quickly responded. “Pull back Eight another two percent, and watch Five!”“Better,” Sijay said a minute later. “Still having to correct, but not like before.”“We’re looking good, Keith.” Devin turned to Shanna. “Are the shuttles staying with us?”“They’re. She talked to me in a very friendly manner and I started to be frank with her. We had even started to talk a little about our personal lives and our families. It was then that I got to know that she had been divorced two years earlier and lived alone in an apartment near the coaching center. Slowly and steadily a bond of understanding had developed between us. She had nearly become a friend of mine and we started to entrust each other with our secrets. I had even tried to flirt with her but.