“I’m spent sweetheart and I can’t linger” he said, shaking his head with a smile.She made a childish pouting face, crossed her arms across her...chest, and turned her face away in mock offense.Jack laughed again “You are amazing Quillé. Who could have known that a treasure such as you were to be discovered on this barren rock. But I gotta’ go sweetheart. People are expecting me”She looked at him with what could almost be interpreted as profound sadness, and Jack felt an unusual pang of heartache. ‘Really?’ I asked. ‘I wonder what that was?’ ‘It could have something to do with your rather low cut bathing suit.’ I laughed and said, ‘Your Speedo doesn’t leave much to the imagination either.’ He laughed in return and then grabbed his shorts from his chair. He pulled them on and then slipped on a pair of flipflops. ‘Never got used to swimming in trunks. I always feel so slow when I wear them in the water.’ ‘All the extra drag,’ I said, grabbing my cover-up from the chair next to me and. ." said Julian, "we work together." Do you have any more in the back?" asked the customer.Caitlynn turned to face him, "Any more what?" Ice." No," said Caitlynn. "Whatever's out front is what we have." What about what's in the soda machine?"Caitlynn sighed, "That's for soda." Can I buy a bag of it?"Caitlynn turned to Julian, "Can he, boss?" Sure, Mr. Collins," said Julian. "I don't have any ice bags for it, though. Will a shopping bag do?"Mr. Collins grunted. Julian went down to get a bag from. As best as we can tell, they were a breakawayfaction from the Ministry in the early days after the Event - an event thatdestabilized the multiverse. Stabilization is the whole reason the MOREexists to begin with. Well, the Coalition of Reality Syndicates - CoReS -took an early version of our technology called a 'probability flexor' andwent about establishing fiefdoms in many of the timelines, settingthemselves up as emperors and gods in a host of realities. They've neverstolen modern MORE.