The view through the lower hole was equally advantageous as I had a full frontal view of her red pants, plump thighs and chubby belly. Beside the pool...she held her belly in, but in the privacy of her cubical she had let it out unaware that anybody could see it. Whilst I had seen mature women on the beach topless I had never seen any woman in her fifties naked from the waist down. I did not have to wait long. She put her hands on either side of her pants and began to pull them down. First of all. “Younger,” I stated.“She could be his daughter, for Christ's sake!” Hope shouted.Gary was like me, in his mid-forties. I could never think of being with someone in their twenties, even early thirties was pushing it.“What made you stick around?” I asked.“He admitted it, the day after. He told me in the early morning,” Hope said. “He transferred his assistant to another one of the accountants and vowed to make it right.”“You believe him?” I asked.Hope nodded. “He might be an asshole, but he is a. That wasn't supposed to happen. Butit did.The doctors liked to co-opt terms from other fields to make it all soundbetter. "Phase shifted" was an electrical term. "Quantum entanglement"wasn't quite what this was. The rip in spacetime happened in 1981,somewhere in Japan. After that, people anywhere had the potential to gethit with what we call Quantum Entanglement Syndrome, or QES. It happenedbecause spacetime ripped open in a dozen, or a thousand, or a billiontrillion universes, so. Pardin could see Lord Hinderblast standing in front of his throne with the last of his body guard in front of him with their swords drawn. There was a woman, Lady Hinderblast, standing behind the throne but not hiding behind it."Begone you vile beasts," Lord Hinderblast shouted."Hey, Pardin," Bernie bellowed above the din of his grunting fellows, "This old fart is talking trash about you. You better get up here and take care of him before someone else takes offense." Come, Adray," Pardin said,.