I can’t believe someone hasn’t grabbed her up before now.”“Are you interested?”“Bill, I’m probably going to be behind these bars for the...rest of my life. What can I offer someone like that?”“I don’t know. Maybe respect, tenderness, and joy. I wouldn’t close the door just because of how your circumstances appear, and I certainly wouldn’t try to make up her mind for her. She deserves the opportunity to decide for herself what her definition of happiness is.”“Don’t I have anything to say about the. "Industries based on nudity?" I asked. It was an interesting concept, even though I couldn't come up with one 'industry' that I thought was based on nudity. Victoria's Secret, maybe, but that was only partial nudity, with the promise of nudity to follow. Put a woman in all that frilly underwear, and a guy will only be thinking of how quickly he can get it off of her.Lisa took over and rattled them off like a well worn litany. "Sure. Things like strippers, and the people who pay to see them,. ”“You know, I hate you!” she laughed.“My usual lament when one of you girls made a legitimate point about my behavior.”“Ready for your presentation?”“Ben approved, so yes.”Her eyes narrowed, “He told you?”“I knew. And you know me, I won’t complain when you’re doing something for my good and for the good of NIKA. If Ben didn’t approve of something, I’d be very reticent to say it. They may not be our biggest client, but they are our most important. That’s a relationship I’m not going to mess up. Now that Zax was entrapped, obtaining the dark attribute’s essence became a secondary concern to preventing one of the other Martial Mortals from snatching it.Hereb Lish, Gong Vreil and Lurvar were contemplating on the sidelines. They were cautious, but not afraid of Zax. The reason they withheld their involvement in the one sided brawl was the fear of being caught in the three Martial Mortals’ struggle.“Hereb Lish, alone there is no way any of us three can obtain the dark attribute’s essence”..