I sent a message to all of the various senior officers asking them to think about our next step. We would get together and make sure they were taken c...re of. Harpy immediately asked for my authorization for an order that Tina had already given on this subject, that the AIs were holding up as beyond her authority. I got her on conference.We had talked several times about her job and the lack of training the Civil Service provided. It was getting better, but the CS was still in its experimental,. Red-brown-orange-green and variations thereof tend to run together. For example, at a traffic light, the red and yellow look the same and the green is a washed-out gray. And if there is a red stop sign in front of a green tree, forget about it, to my eyes, it isn’t even there.I remember when we would play baseball when I was a kid. If a grass-stained ball got fouled off into the weeds or the woods and I went to look for it, I could search for twenty minutes and never find it--it blended right. Lilly was in a mood and she seemed to be trying to impress him by using me to show off. She abruptly stood up and announced, “Well, I’ve waited long enough. Let’s fuck!” I couldn’t have been more surprised by her boldness and I wondered why it couldn’t wait until we were done eating.She dropped her pants while staring at Denny, unblinking. He was caught surprised at the sight of her skin from the waist down and she was so confident in apparently astonishing him. It worked. She tossed her pants. More than just intentions are flowing between them, though. Emotions: understanding, desire, caring, and a powerful warmth he thinks is love all rush from her soul to his, and mixed throughout this swirling exchange of each other is the knowledge that it is not a one-way connection. He steps up to her so their bodies touch. She tilts her head back till the water courses through her hair, but makes no other move. He runs his hands through her hair till the soap is gone, finishing the work he.