Er, ah, not today. I have to get home. My, er, mom will worry about meOkay, then. Maybe next time. Ill call you. Until then, stay strappedAngie giggle.... You bet. See yaKen and Mark walked up to Kathy. Ken began kissing her passionately.Mark cleared his throat. Hey, enough of that you two.Oh hi Mark. Its just like we havent seen each other what like all dayWho was that femme girl that I saw you with Ken asked.Oh her. Thats Angie. Wait till I tell you what I happened! I caught hersniffing my. You know what you signed up for." She shook her head and let out a long exasperated sigh. "This is going to take some time to get used to ... for both of us."Even with the monetary rewards awaiting her at the other end of this, Dominique was clearly having trouble coming to terms with it. No sane person would find her role easy, but she'd have to be crazy not to try, given what she'd been offered. I weighed far too little on her mind, weighed against what Alex could afford to give her, and her. Everyone on the team knew that the one person missing from the conference was the difference in their work. Sure, they were talented and on its own their work was impressive. Since Miriam's arrival, though, their productivity increased exponentially. To everyone's credit they heartily acknowledged her role on the team, if only because they knew if they didn't, Holland would let them accept an offer from another company where their skills would languish and their shortcomings would be. "How long was I out?" asked Ethan and cleared his throat."You'll have to do better than that, Captain. Stand up now," she said in a mildly authoritative but not unkind way."Am I being held as a prisoner of war?" asked Ethan rather dejectedly.Nicole grinned widely as she was searching for the right key in the chain."The Geneva accords?" she asked and shrugged. "There's no reason for that, we're all civilized here," she said and looked straight at Ethan before asking him, "Aren't we?"Ethan.