And weaving about the city, snaking beside the roads, diving through the tall buildings, above crossroads and emerging from and disappearing into myst...rious dark tunnels of promise and dread, were railway lines on which chuffed steam trains and sped electric trains, diesel trains and trains levitated by the magic of magnetism several centimetres above the rails. This spaghetti of railway track transported me and everyone else who chose to board the train past advertisement hoardings, above. If he joined the Party, he would be promoted again, without doubt. Natalya carried on with more conversation while Anatole thought about the offer. Finally, the Federovs agreed. After the Rostovs left, Anna was summoned from her room and told of the agreement. She was ecstatic. She was in love with Niki. She had felt that he was close to asking for her hand and she had given him every encouragement, even letting him put his hand inside her camisole the last two times they had necked. The last. “Look it’s only been a few of days and I told you at the start that I wanted all the blocks and facilities checked daily but I ain’t getting the signed rounds chits,” he began.“Your knuckleheads and the four grommets should be able to do this easy. One grommet cooks, the rest of you do your rounds, do cleanos as required, and repair any fucking thing that is broken and if you can’t fix it, log it in the defect log. How fucking hard is that?”“Well...” Spike was about to interject and Knocker. " I tried to look as guilty as possible, detecting a subtle undercurrent here. The Tweedles celebratory fist-bump didn't help, but I was comforted by the fact that I knew Mrs. Devers is no fool."Detention," she announced ominously, and I swear it sounded like she'd had to choke it out, "for the rest of the week."I wanted to shove Cagney's and Lacey's smug looks right down their pimpled throats. The rest of the week in detention? What about my posing for Kathy? What about the meet'n'greet? And I.