She'd overlooked that; made excuses---he worked hard, he was tired, etc. but the fact had always remained: her husband was simply preoccupied with him...elf more than with her, or their daughter. In the last four years he had lost his ability to get, or hold on to, an erection; and this had precipitated quite a number of bitter evening yelling matches---he blaming her, and she resenting that. He'd said that wasn't sexy any longer, and that, more than anything else he had ever said, had cut her. The black hair was cut slightly longer, and formed a stripe around her head, about a hand wide. The copper hair rested over this like a cap. Both edges were cut perfectly evenly and straight, the black stripe terminating just above her shoulders. There were two long plaits in her hair, threaded intricately and subtly with strands of both black and copper interwoven, these were almost two feet long, and had shiny beads set into them, forming another pattern in the beads. She had no other. The Arizona drain pipes could flip a car if they were hit fast enough.JJ started yelling at the General and walking toward him. JJ had been right about the little dick comment. The General had spun in place and taken two steps back toward the street when she yelled it. He was quivering with rage and he gestured toward the two soldiers with JJ. They grabbed her before she took three steps and lifted her in the air to keep her from going farther. Jim could feel the men's fingers painfully digging. They will acquire the record; no one is to interfere under penalty of death."The doctor nodded, "it is understood. All has been made ready for your courier." Very good, I'd hate to lose as fine of a doctor as you." The voice replied then the line went dead.The sixth council nodded to the male in dark clothing then blinked when the male seemed to vanish. Only waiting a few minutes the darkly clothed male reappeared holding a small blinking black box then one finger up. Smiling the council turned.