He just looked beaten. I left the threat hanging then added, “There is another option.”He was so keen to find a way out, “Anything, anything to ...void me losing my job.”“Very well,” I paused, “We have decided to punish you. All of us will spank you.”“Now hang on a minute,” he croaked, “when I said anything, I meant…”I cut across him, “It’s that or we report you. Your choice.”He was totally out of his depth. Reluctantly he muttered, “All right, you can punish me. What do you want me to do?”“Strip. "No it's not herpes or Chlamydia or any disease like that. I need to be checked for A.I.D.S."Dr. Watson was taken back. "Oh ... I see ... do you know if the person you were with has A.I.D.S?" I don't know anything about this person. I just really need to get checked." Very well then. Our phlebotomist is out towards the left wing of the building. Just give them this paper," the doctor scribbled something and handed him a piece of paper. "They'll get your blood work done for you." Thanks," Oscar. We field dressed them and threw them over the backs of Grinder and Sheer and set off on the road east."Perhaps we'll get a better sense of what Uln will be like from whoever we talk to at this mythical inn we are supposed to run into." Trunk said."Let's hope the inn doesn't share Uln's character, assuming our sources at the Great Slide weren't busy defaming their neighbors without reason."Winter had moved into spring before we had made our trip to Harecht, and spring here on the plains was. I left my NP-fingertips holding the sticks forward while I pulled my sight blobs back (it sure wasn't going to take thirty two seconds for the fighters to impact). Both sight blobs zoomed ahead to check that the impact area was clear.The cameramen were having a great time, excitedly calling out comments to each other, trying to narrate into their mics, etc.I searched in extremely rapidly widening circles around the likely impact area, happily finding nobody. I kept searching until I heard the.