I turned off the engine and followed her in."I *did*tell you that I rent out some rooms," she said as we approached the porch. That's kind of interest...ng. I wondered what that would be like. She *was*somewhat close to the university. A couple of graduate students, or maybe an instructor or two?The living room was nicely done, the furniture wasn't new or anything, but the room felt comfortable and she had knickknacks around that, well, if not like I'd choose, they were nice enough. A *man*walked. Alex looked over the catwalk rail. There was a group of eight or ten pipes running in parallel horizontally just a few feet out and a few feet down from the catwalk. Beyond them was the stainless-steel top of a round cauldron-thing. It beat just standing here...Chester looked over his shoulder and saw where Alex was looking. "Go!" he shouted.Alex slipped under the rail, took a deep breath, and jumped.He hit the pipes hard -- they rang like bells, but they held. Momentum pushed Alex into a. Angela ran her fingers through the woman's hair then slowly unbuttoned the front of her dress, letting it fall open to admire her beauty."How long can you stay?" As long as you want me to," Joanna replied."We have to be careful, at least for the time being." Why?" I'd get into trouble if they found out. I'm still assigned to your case."Joanna nodded. "I want to keep seeing you. I love it when we're together." I know," Angela sighed, stroking her face."I could leave George, move in with you." I. Now let us discuss our next phase; please, Captian, continue your report." Yes, lord. As you know, we have designed our training schedules in shifts to make it difficult for any of Iosoan's spies to count our true number. We have, at present, an army five thousand strong which has spent the past year training for this campaign. Our current estimates of their numbers are under three thousand." Remind me, Captain, how you have finally divided the troops. Was it three thousand for the forest?".