“I need a few minutes of your time for some thing that’s a mix of business and pleasure.” He sounded serious.Dave marked his place and closed hi... book. “Sure. What’s up?”Mike looked around the patio to be sure no one else would hear what he had to say. He began, “You know I run Circle X Productions, and you know that Alice, Emily, and most of the other women in the Circle have done some videos that I’ve put up on my website. A few have let me distribute their vids on a wider scale, so they show. I didnt realize it at that point, but it was a question that would end up permanently changing our relationship. About Bea ======== I met my wife, Bea, during my first year of college in the fall of 1972, and I immediately fell in love with her. Bea came across as being very intelligent and genuinely kind, but also naive and innocent at the same time. And those qualities only served to make her even more desirable–especially considering the fact that she was already a college sophomore and she. She gave me a chair to stand on, and then she started to give me things that I had to put away in the cabinets at the top. And when we were done with putting away those things, she said, "Thanks for helping me." No problem," I said and climbed down from the chair."Now for dinner, do you eat meat?" Yes," I said. "I'm not a picky eater." Well, then I will make our usual dinner," she said smiling."Do you need some help?" Thanks for asking, but no, you can go back to Patrick."And so I walked out of. That surprised me for a second or two, and then I had an epiphany. Both men were outworlders and they were slaves. I smiled at that and wondered just how far I could trust them.The two men were Richard Adams and Josh Winslow. They'd been on Game World for about ten years and for nine of those years they'd been slaves in this palace. It turned out that they had a wealth of intelligence to share with me and once I gave them my spiel about what Game World was really about, I had two more recruits.