Dan laughed as a mental image flashed through his mind. Chuckling, he said, “Don’t push her too fast, Tom. She’s liable to make it her goal in l...fe to see you strung up in bondage gear and abusing your body for days at a time.”Tom burst out in laughter. Ellen winked at Dan and said, “That’s not a bad idea.”“Oh, no! Tom is in trouble now,” Dan said laughing.Tom peddled a little harder on the bike and said, “I’m trying to get away, but this bike doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.”The group broke. I almost jumped when she put her hand on my shoulder to get my attention. I looked inside her brain again to see that the place in her head had a sort of shield around it now. It wasn’t anything like my shield, but it was protecting the place in her head from the goggles doing something she didn’t want.“I don’t know much about them. I thought I did, but something happened. The people that made them aren’t anywhere I can find them now. The goggles communicate via some sort of Bluetooth. “Gosh mum, you could knock before entering,” I admonished her as she stood there, staring at the two of us. We briefly stopped our actions, but Christopher did not dismount me. He tried to pull out of me, but I held him firm, determined not to let our mother’s presence interrupt what we were busy doing. “I am awfully sorry to interrupt, my dears, I did not expect to find the two of you here,” she said. Then thoughtfully she added: ” Carry on, I will leave and let you enjoy it.” Mother turned. In fact, the wily Desmond was reasonably certain the supposed invading force would never actually make it to their region at all. He had it on good authority that the damage from the counter attack had virtually destroyed the enemy's homeland's military and economic systems so badly that they had no chance of ever posing any further danger to the country. If he was a betting man like his hedonistic brother, he would lay heavy odds that the invasion would never materialize.The scout came back to.