I want you to be showered and dried off and warm. I want you to wear that old blue nightdress, the one that's worn through near the shoulders. I will ...all you at 8:30. Take my call on the phone by the bed. Have the answering machine hooked up for the office phones."She looked at me strangely. "What have you got in mind?"I stepped to the other side of the vestibule door. She was wearing jeans and a cableknit blue v-neck sweater. She'd pulled them on only to see me to the door, and there was. Oh, well, doesn't matter. It's just argle-bargle. I suppose you'll be around anyway."It stunned him and he didn't understand why at first. He knew he was not her 'one and only' lover. They were not really lovers, at all. They were sort of sexual play buddies. And true, loving friends he had begun to think. So it shook him. He mumbled something as he got up and zipped his fly. Then he left to return back to his empty digs. Elspeth looked after him as he went out of her flat door. She frowned.. So much power, Mark, so easy to make mistakes.” Jada sighed. “Let me tell you about our mission today. It’s not complete. Let me tell you about Amber...” Jada explained for a while, until Mark felt another heartbeat within her adult breast.“So,” the young girl said with a smile, “why don’t we abandonFloridaof 2009 for a while and get back to reality?”“Sure. Ready to go?”“Almost. One last peek.” The girl paused for a long subjective moment, enough to spin slowly around the bedroom and gape one. " Arne said.They flew in that afternoon and met Tom Standaahl, the Project supervisor. Tom was retired navy out of the Norfolk Naval Yard, and had spent thirty years supervising the building of a variety of naval vessels. He was a loud, grinning bowling ball with legs, but Arne swore he had eyes in the back of his head and a BS detector that would make any college professor proud."We're doing our own training for all the new stuff, and stealing people from MIT as fast as they can graduate.