People get emotionally caught up in their ideas, trying to be reasonable scares them. Didn't you see how upset she was getting? Her arms were going li...e windmills." I did notice that." Actually I think I went at it wrong. They've always seemed so rational, so logical, and I tried to ride that. Bad move. I guess I should have figured, back when they were attacking us that wasn't the most rational approach either, now, was it?"He laughed. "Not exactly." I guess reason goes only so far with them.. ? ?I?m not playing? he replied.? He stepped up to her putting his hand at thebase of her neck and pulled her mouth to his kissing her deeply andpassionately.? His tongue probed hermouth and she felt it run against her teeth.?Just as suddenly as he started he stopped and his hand moved from herneck into her hair.? He wound his fingersin its length and pulled her head back roughly.?She was so stunned by the kiss she didn?t even have time to react. Herhead jerked back and she could feel the pull. “You are a part of this, I know. Please tell me what the hell is going on.”She replied, “Let’s eat first and then I’ll fill you in.”After the simple dinner she poured more wine and sat close to him on the couch.She started by explaining that Emily had been talking to her for several months about her changing needs and feelings. When his wife had explained how she had accepted Tom’s sexual wanderings for many years, Wilda had revealed her own sex with him.Wilda was in her early thirties,. After tonight he wouldn't need Marilyn's image any more. Maybe eventually Jain would find it, after he was gone, and understand at last why he'd been forced to do what he was about to."This is the point where you go back," the slipper said."I'm not going back," Kroll said."It only gets ugly from here. First, I dig your transmat out of your neck. That's going to hurt like hell. Once it stops being connected to tissue, the chops are alerted. That gives you about 60 seconds to drop over this wall.