"Or something," Marla replied with a small smile, leaning back in the leather chair behind her desk. Holding her coffee mug in both hands, she inspect...d me. "I've noticed you working in the building this past week. You're a very pretty young lady. Head cheerleader and Prom Queen in high school, I bet." Thanks for the compliments." I felt the heat of a blush on my cheeks. I'd never felt comfortable accepting compliments for things I'd been born with. After all, how much credit can you take for. The listening posts which had been sent out for security in the night were hustling back from several directions, beating the trucks to the camp. He saw the camp defenses draw tight in case anything was following. Hitch longed to have a radioman nearby so that he could know what was happening. His need to control the battle rising easily, making the situation even more frustrating for him.The trucks skidded in and parked, left idling as a few figures got out. It was a company-sized convoy, the. Evening rolled around and when Rupa went for a wash she closed the door so Arun couldn’t watch. “All part of the big tease” she thought. She put on a pair of baggie pyjama and a matching top and went downstairs.Together Arun and Rupa watched a few lame sitcoms before Rupa announced she was headed to bed. She walked over to the kitchen counter and got her purse. Pulling out some things she announced, “Okay, I got some sleeping pills. Now I’m ready for some deep sleep”. Arun laughed. She. Before I could do anything else, though, I first had to create supplies of nitric acid and sulfuric acid. It was time consuming, but not impossible, and I finally created enough so the work required to make gelignite was worthwhile. I also trained several people to continue making the two acids.Like the acids, gelignite was laborious to manufacture. Then I had to make rudimentary blasting caps to detonate it. Since drawn wire was still further down my list, it would be a while before we could.