He gets close and I step back to let him pass. "Thanks, but I actually wanted to talk to you..if you're okay with that, I mean."I am known for chattin... with total strangers and I do it all the time. So I didn't mind that this guy was trying to do that same thing with me. He was a black guy - tall and lean, around my age, and very good looking. "Sure. And hello." We exchanged names and after some mindless opening chatter, he got right to the point."This probably will seem to be very direct and. Or would you like me tostart sending that video footage out?''Please punish me for speaking to you in that terrible way.' I askedafter a few seconds.'Turn round, face the wall, hands up against the wall, above your head.'I stood as instructed, Lynne stood to one side of me and with an evilgrin on her face raised the slipper up and behind her shoulder beforebringing it arcing down onto my already tender ass. The crack was sharpand swift, the explosion of pain from my ass caused my knees to. Thenheld up her hand to stop my questions."It could be triggered by the Awakening of the Six Family Heads of theA'shiwi, or by the return of one of the other Ancient families." You mean the O'shawi triggered it?" I asked."The O'shawi Bio-Ship Icarus has been sending pulse codes toward Iridanifor the purpose of contacting Galaxia since they discovered the end ofthe Skyway three years ago. Those transmissions triggered the code inthe tattoos. Not just the current Seekers at the time, but all of. Some grumbling started among the other patrons at the bar when George started the song for the third straight time, but I stood the bar a round and soon everyone was soulfully singing along with me and Old George. The tender must have opened up a better bottle of Jack for today too, because after four single shots, I was feeling no pain.I was on my fifth shot and had just fired up a Hav-a-Tampa stogie my new best friend Joe gave me, when my other new best friend Cindy perched her butt on my.