"The jerk is always threateningme if I don't help him pass his tests so he can stay on the team. Iinvented something I was going to use on him and mys...lf to get revenge,but I now have a much better idea." What would that be?" Missy asked as she suddenly found herselfinterested. Eric told Missy that his science fair project was a brainswap machine that he was going to use on himself and Eric, but figuredthat having such a macho jerk being turn into a girl was even a worstpunishment that becoming. My son agreed to return in the afternoon. I then called my wife and told her what had transpired between us. She was extremely embarrassed. But she had already agreed. She said, ‘OK. Today afternoon. But please do not go to the office today. I need you here, for moral support’. I agreed. My son left for college and me and wife were alone.We spent the whole morning in discussing how to keep this under control without any embarrassment. Just after we had lunch, our son returned. My wife served. .." When I chuckled at the coincidence, her life possibly following the path Nick had taken early in his new skin, she asked, "What?" Nothing." Anyway, I've got such solid connections in Edinburgh that graduate school will lead to a doctorate which I'm already working on, at least rudimentarily. And I lined up teacher's assistant with a professor who has become my mentor. And yes, my tongue may have as much to do with her decision as my intellect."I chuckled. "More than just your tongue, and. You don’t have enough gas in that gas can to get even one of the skis back to it. If you had made the island, you still had no chance to escape. Fangatau is uninhabited, and the only fresh water supply is at the abandoned airport. If we had left you there, the next visitors would have been my maintenance crew next week when they checked the facilities.”“I’m going to back the boat up to you, and I suggest you both climb on-board as your only other option would be sitting there until you die of.