She was Josephine Larkin and I’d fancied her for ages. We had often talked over coffee and I thought maybe, just maybe, she was interested. Bitter e...perience of rejection not to say outright offence had stopped me taking any initiative.We checked into an hotel and went to our rooms to shower and change after a long journey before meeting up for a drink and a meal.“You’re gay too, aren’t you?” she had asked over a sharing plate of delicious Chinese morsels. I was just using chopsticks to shove a. I'm thinking of a modified Gauss gun, rather than trying for a propellant based gun. Frankly I couldn't help them much there anyway. A Gauss gun normally uses a magnetic field to "pull" the projectile at hyper-velocities (barely sub- to super-sonic). I was going to modify the field presented in the glove to a pull, rather than a push like we used in the cross-bows, to simulate the magnetic field.I've been training the Healers as much as I can, plus we have developed several items to help them,. Ray suggested that they have some dessert and champagne to celebrate Ms X's birthday. She was a little resistant to this but at Ray's insistence she agreed. Ms X excused herself to visit the ladies room. Ms X leaving the table was a fortuitous event. Ray forgot about his plan A and went immediately to plan B. Ray asked the waiter to bring two flutes and the champagne immediately. Before Ms X could return to the table, Ray put the engagement ring into her flute and poured the champagne.Ms X. We all knew the situation and it was stressful enough without bickering or any one of us trying to take the blame.I looked at each of the girls gathered, making sure to have full eye contact. "Thank you. All of you." I sat up and they moved around to curl near me. It reminded me of something and I looked up to the mural. It was an abstract that, to me, looked like a bunch of tigers piled together."Did you see something like this when you bought the mural?" I asked Nadia.She smiled. Maybe she.