With the solstice coming in six days, I was about to go from fifteen hours a day of darkness at Jericho to seventeen hours a day of light. I idly wond...red if I would need to get used to the change.My last ride on the Asad had been on the 21'st at the Jericho cathedral. The test had been very strange, filled with paradoxes. Literally. Six hours of questions on mathematical paradoxes, emotional paradoxes, legal paradoxes; the testing left my head spinning by the end of it. The moral paradoxes. No matter. I needed to clean up the mess of my electronics. I started by pulling the hard drive in my tower. I sealed it in an anti-static bag and pulled a spare out of my locked file cabinet. Something told me I was going to need to expand my inventory of spare parts if I kept going in this business. I installed a clean system on the machine. I loaded it up with all the anti-virus software I had and connected an old modem to my landline. My T1 was obviously compromised as a route out. When it. "John scribbled his name, the date and 'gambling' on thecontract and handed it back to the man. The man took thepaper but John did not let go."I will pay this back." said John."Good." said the man.John grabbed the cotton bag and left quickly. He wanted toget out of this neighborhood with a bag full of cash."Caroline, listen, I have to stay in town for anothercouple weeks. ...yeah. ...yeah, I know sweetie but this iswhat they're telling me. Alright. Alright, I'll call youwith the new flight. ” “Your Master has purchased some beautiful jewelry for you. He loves piercings as well as tattoos; loves the way they look and feel during sex especially. And they can provide just the right amount of pain to enhance your pleasure. I have a number of piercings and I just live them. You do wish to be beautiful for your Master and allow him to provide this pleasure for you, don’t you?” “Yes. I would do anything to please my Master and make myself more beautiful to him.” The girl walked over and.