Right now the needles point deep into the blue, and shimmy just perceptibly as Holly shivers in the cold... Ben looks out on the scene and smiles, sip...ing his warm coffee as he stands next to the fire. Among the data the instruments feed to his indoor panel are his trusting slaves' vital signs, including body temperature. He won't let them freeze, just get cold enough to be grateful when he thaws them out....however he might choose to do it. The gauges also measure humidity - in the girls'. When we surfaced for air my voice was rough and throaty. "I want you right now." "I do too, and I know, normally, I like having an audience, but I just think it would be a bit much on Neil don't you?" Of course she was right. Once again she had me thinking with the wrong head. We spent the rest of the afternoon moving things around and once the initial weirdness wore off we all got along and worked together better than ever. During the course of the afternoon I noticed Sarah's shirt sticking to. Well they would, normally, but they had been reduced to a minimum by the last round of penny-pinching ‘transformation’ in the company, and this week they were reduced further by holidays. The guy on the door wouldn’t be round until 8pm at the earliest. Dick and ‘the woman’ didn’t know this, so they shared his ‘Hand-cut Cheddar and Semi-Organic Rocket’ sandwiches. He wondered why ‘hand-cut’ made any difference and what the hell semi-organic was; just a way of adding a pound to the price, he. She keptcomplimenting my legs." he laughed to himself and coughed.He finally looked up at me and took a drink from his glass. I stared...God he was cute.... Well -- "she" I rationalized. All I kept seeing was acute girl in my kitchen. Was I insane?"Was fun though..." he continued after a long drink. "Things may havebeen too fun... Did I..." he glanced back at his bedroom, "uh... Did yousee me go to bed?"Here was my chance to come clean. To let this all drop and not start inon this ludicrous.