It had tagged me as (hostile, potential) which had activated the building's self-destruct sequence with a four-hour delay. The counter was now at 3:14...57 and counting down to a scheduled detonation at 2:15:00 PM.I took a moment to think. If I left now, there was about a 50% chance the automated security system would decide that with no one in the building, it could reset and not detonate. It all depended on how severely the Nikahaldi had tuned the aggression matrix on the pseudo-emotional fuzzy. Nor do I ever expect a day to pass without recalling it. I remember the events in exact detail.It started less than a week before that day. Doug had returned from a business trip early Sunday afternoon. He is a superlative salesman and this trip was his most successful ever. The commission he earned from this sale would have paid off the remaining 25 years of our mortgage in a single payment. In spite of the magnitude of the success, he was acting strangely. He had trouble meeting my eyes and. " You were always on the right side at least according to this." She had a stack of notes."Right is the side with the most guns at the time." I said it trying to stay one step ahead of her."How can you say that Robin," Autumn replied. "Right is right, no matter who has the most might." I didn't come to argue with either of you ladies. I was the natural choice since I wanted to go to Afghanistan for the waters anyway." Mr Burke, Afghanistan is a mostly desert." Mona said it with a twinkle in her. "Mom would never let me wear this much makeup normally but since this isyour debut as a Princess, I'm sure she won't mind. I wonder if she'sgonna put any makeup on Princess Timmy, he'd be cute with some of thelip-gloss that Suzie has.By the way, you're gonna have to get your own stuff like makeup andclothes, and underwear; I guess we could share makeup, we could taketurns buying it but I don't have enough outfits for two girls and Ithink it's creepy to share underwear.You could borrow an outfit.