"Are we going to talk TV or run?" I asked."I'll try to keep up," she said."You are ten years younger you should be able to run me into the ground." I ...aid. I was already headed for the free standing bleachers to leave my towel and water bottle. Then on to a counter clockwise lap of the field. I ran off setting a not too fast but a nice steady pace. Something around seven miles an hour I would think. She struggled to keep up. Since she was always behind me. I didn't know she dropped out at the. ‘Oh, my god, I hadn’t even thought about that yet. I really was out of it!’ Shortly afterwards, a broad smile broke over her face as she said, ‘I did have quite a night didn’t I?’ I could almost see the events spooling through her mind as if a tape recorder was running. ‘We have a lot of stuff to talk about and I want to see myself on camera! Look, let me go get cleaned up and dressed and we’ll go get lunch at Friendly’s – I’m hungry now that I’m awake. Then we can talk.’ We had lunch while. It was a dozen systems now, and she was fighting for Mars. She was on her ship, and she had to get past the United Nations blockade. They’d found the hidden wormhole and the first Mars expedition, and they were going to take their home from them! David was saying something about a missile salvo, and the wormhole opened as she nailed the entry vector and fired the engines. Darkness, a hellish light, and ... smoke? Something. A light? She looked at it and - her eyes opened.Soft light filtered. Peter got out of bed, and wentto the toilet, he looked at himself in the mirror, nah I can't do it hethought, but then realised that he had dripped on to his trousers.He went back to his room, and turned on the light; he took off histrousers; he was going to look for a clean pair, when he saw the sliplying on the floor. The memory of the short time that he had felt itagainst his legs went through his head, could he have that feelingagain he thought; he shook his head, and decided he couldn't,.