.. isn’t it?” asked Ronnie.“I don’t think I want to talk to you any more,” said Susan, frowning.“Well, who else are you going to talk to? ...obody else seems to be around,” said Ronnie maddeningly.Susan used that as a distraction. “Yeah, where is everybody, anyway?”Ronnie, who was in pretty good touch with her own sexuality, and pretty comfortable with it as well, recognized that, if she pushed things, she might not have anybody to talk to, so she backed off a bit. She liked to snow board alone,. “Yes, Chef!”John paused at the junction, greeting Helene and her Nymph entourage with a smile as they walked up the path from the beach to join them. The aquatic girl looked starry-eyed as she smiled back at him, walking on unsteady feet with Jade’s support.“You look like you had a good time,” he said, trying not to chuckle at her dazed expression.Helene blushed furiously and giggled, averting her eyes.Jade winked at him and said, “I think we overdid it a bit, Master. After Leylira mentioned. But Syon should have been able to sense humans in the truck at this range! He didn’t know of anything else that could disrupt the continuum in quite the same way. The continuum was more chaotic than normal, as if the flow of energy had been disrupted, restricted, or corrupted.“We’re going to have to look inside, ” Syon determined, and the two Marines reluctantly agreed.“This feels like what Major Connor encountered in Iraq, ” the Marine Corporal pointed out, having been linked during the update. ’ ‘All of them? Together? In one show?’ I asked. ‘Yes, indeed, my lady,’ he said. He saw the smile on my face, and at the same time, we high-fived each other, and shouted, ‘Sweet!’ He reached onto the floor for his shorts and pulled out his credit card. There was something boyishly cute about seeing him sitting naked and cross-legged on my bed smiling like an idiot as he punched in the letters and numbers he needed to make the transaction. ‘Done!’ he said as if he had claimed a major conquest..