"Absolutely breathtaking," she said, smiling this time, having caught my unspoken message that we both knew that she wasn't talking about stars.I grin...ed at her. "Are you hungry? Or perhaps you would like to go right to desert?" I asked. She gulped again."Famished," she said recovering, with her own grin. "But I will save room for desert."Throughout dinner we continued the innuendo and double speak. By the time we got through the excellent lasagna that Dan had coaxed out of the replicator,. Only the stupid ones get detected."Penrose looked at Chalky."Or the unlucky ones," he smiled guiltily."So you've got nothing?" Not much. Remember that other thing we talked about though?" Which other thing was that?" The kidnapping ring." Oh yes," Penrose confirmed, still not quite believing that it existed, even after talking with Hammond."I asked about that too. The rumour is: if you've got a hundred grand or two to spare, you can pretty much pick your target and they'll go grab her, do. The readings are closely related. It appears that the Tendrax have damaged their systems with the very energy they use for space travel. Also, from the readings it appears that they have been using it for an extended time. Perhaps it's their main energy on their planet also?"Derrick nodded then looked next to him as both Rayburn and Kimison's holograms appeared. "Does that coincide with what the two of you have found out?"Both men nodded grimly, "They are slowly killing their selves. As. He had brought a lantern and lit it saying he wanted to be able to see her. They were whispering so the k**s wouldn't over hear and he said he and his wife had married young and he had never had a white woman. He asked if she had ever had a black man and she admitted she had back in her wild college days. He saw her laying on her sleeping bag naked with her legs slightly apart so he could see all of her and he said " damn Sue, you are ready for this aren't you?" She nodded uh huh and said I.