The Patriarch smiled and gestured for him to continue with a wave of his massive hand. “I have been very impressed with what I have seen so far. The...city is modern and cosmopolitan, the lakeside villages are picturesque, and the jungles are a brimming with natural wealth. The Elysian people are of noble character, I have been well treated wherever I have found myself.”Xhe translated for the benefit of the other Borealans and the Patriarch puffed out his chest with pride.“A valid assessment, if. Other than that I'm just supposed to sit and not disturb the clients. The bad part is I have to get dressed up, which I really don't feel comfortable with. I've always been kind of a casual sort of person. Anyway, my bosses wife helps me out,I don't really have very good taste. I was wearing a Kelly green little dress, it was a little bit short, about 6" above my knees, it had a plunging back, but the front was up to my neck, I put a couple of green ribbons in my hair to keep it out of my. But most of all I remember the words the guard spoke to me less than twominutes after we left Stockton."Ticket please, miss."That was when I was certain my journey was really underway. *York station was busy, even at half-past eleven on a Sunday morning.Everywhere I looked people were on the move, hurrying across thefootbridges or wheeling trolleys full of cases along the platforms insearch of those elusive few square feet of private space. The air beneaththe. "Vickie called me four days later and we met at Silvio's, had dinner and then caught a movie. That date led to a second and the second to a third. We kissed on the fourth and necked like teenagers on the fifth, sixth and seventh and got so carried away with our making out that we ended up making love on the back seat of my extended cab pickup.It was a weird relationship from the start at least from the standpoint of getting together. She had a flight schedule that took her out of town for three.