At this stage, it was impossible to tell who had won the battle, but logic was on the side of the attackers. Nevertheless, we searched through the bui...ding, and Sharon found a skeleton in a closet. With the skeleton was a short note describing what had happened.The note said, "The invaders showed up one morning about a year after the great disaster struck. We were not prepared to deal with the ferocity of their attack, and they wiped out almost all of us. I was able to hide in this closet and. Of course I had always enjoyed this, but I had never performed naked, to an audience of four men, who punctuated everything I did with physical punishment. It was very structured, obviously to make us supple. We all performed splits, we stood on one leg, and raised the other, we bent over backwards, and bent down not just to touch our toes, but to place our hands flat on the floor. The others were all good at it, and I tried hard to conform, which fortunately I just about did. One of the. "Uhh...hey Jeanie!" he ventured. Not his best opener."Hey, Adam. Good to see you."Brian looked at the two briefly. Adam was very nervous, but Jeanie wascalm and collected. That was a good sign. Jeanie wasn't in to Adam.Whenever she's nervous about something she looks down and shuffles herfeet. Like she did earlier with me...Brian shushed the intrusive thought in his head and helped Adam with thegroceries.He explained the situation to Adam who seemed more than eager to spendsome alone time with. "I remember you telling me they thought you were getting too chummy with me. They won't be happy about extended philosophical discussions, especially on agency time. So we probably shouldn't have them over your dedicated line, which I'm sure is automatically tapped, right?"He shrugged acknowledgment."Call us back, at your convenience," I said. "Any line, just dial my old cell number. It's not listed any more, as I'm sure you know, but Spook's quarantined it so it can't be reassigned. The only.