Rushing to the back door, Kerri found a small package stuffed between the screen door and back door. Her hands were shaking when she ripped it open an... was confronted with a very sheer, black blouse. A small note was attached and it read, 'you will wear this blouse tomorrow at school so I hope you have something that goes with it?' Her eyes filled with tears and she read the last demoralizing line, which punctuated her dilemma. 'And don't wear anything under the blouse!'Holding the blouse up,. Porter’s hopes were soaring. “Will you remove it?”“No,” the whisper answered and Porter’s dreamed plummeted. “You now have sufficient knowledge base of the physics you call Blue residing within your body. You may remove, supplement, or designate the distribution of that knowledge among your fellow entities.”“Thank you,” Porter said simply, dazed at the gift of minor godhood.“Do not thank me,” the whisper said. “One experiment has concluded; the next one begins. Good luck to your species, young. Randall’s girlfriend is still missing. This is her…’ She took a color photograph from her bag. Waylon noticed the resemblance instantly. ‘She looks like you Keni…’ Keni nodded. ‘To quote my mom and sister, a dead ringer…it did not lighten the mood.’ She visibly shivered. ‘Waylon, how did you get in contact with Max Connor…?’ He sighed. ‘Met him in a bar in Oklahoma City, me and Anita went there just for a change. She got totally confused when she came out of the bathroom and sat down with him. “Just almost NOT flying. Flight controller’s got us, we don’t deviate a degree from the flight path, twenty feet from altitude. It’ll take us right to the airport, and all I have to do is land.”“Welcome to the Brave New World,” Stoney laughed. “How much of our work is like that any more? Machines make all the stuff easy...”“Until the machine doesn’t, and somebody needs to be there to know the difference,” Cindy said. “You know what happens. Somebody enters a wrong data point...” She smiled. “I.