"Uh," Paul said, and looked uncertain. Come to think of it, Tomthought, he looks a lot like Cindy did, back in high school, when hedoes that. "Co...e on," Tom urged. "I'll even pay for dinner." With a dazed look, Paul said, "Uh, sure, why not?" "Great!" Tom stood up again. "Get your purse and shit, and let's,oh hey," he mentioned as he thought of something. "Mind if I call youPaula tonight? Paul would sound a little..." He waved his hand to showthat it would sound a little too. 'Only horrible for a little while. Mostly sensible.''If I got fed-up with sensible what would you think?' Her voice was muffled and I could hardly hear her.'You'd have to learn how to be selfish, and two non-sensibles is a recipe for disaster. Somebody has to be an anchor.''Is that the sort of selfish you mean?' Yes.'You're getting the idea.' She let go and swung herself out of bed.'I'm going to shower later. Today's going to be so sweaty there's no point in having one now. Do you want. “The good news is that a lot of the materials I will need are readily available on the market as DIY adult toy kits. The bad news is that none of those are porous enough to transfer flavor to your tongue’s taste receptors. I want to try a modified version of the method they use to make aerogel and see if I can come up with a good balance.”“I can’t say I know much about aerogel, but isn’t that stuff really brittle?”“It is, but the structure of aerogel is only a few nanometers thick, which is. “Zane was the only one who DID notice anything. I went over there to rip him apart over what he was doing to YOU, and instead, he forced me to sit down and tell him what was going on. He didn’t care about you. He’s the one who has been helping me through this whole thing. You guys have been wrapped up in nothing but yourselves the whole time” she said.“But you were helping him screw with us!” Nikki responded.“Because you deserved it! You got him beat up for Christ’s sake!” Stephanie.