”I nodded. “I have.”“It was leveled and installed by Karthanian civil engineers about 1500 years ago in the hopes to get this planet chosen as...a neutral meeting place.The material used is very similar to our Duro-Crete and should have lasted thousands of years. But someone imported probably by accident, a mineral eating microbe and it mated with another perhaps local microorganism and a new life form emerged that finds the polymer compounds used in that Karthanian concrete especially delicious.. The band resumed it's playing as Carlos and Maria began the dancing. I took Lynn by the hand as I spoke."Waltz, my dear?" I asked with a grin.She just smiled as she rose from her seat and followed me onto the dance floor. Ron and Jill soon followed and momentarily the whole room was out on the floor waltzing to the music as the band played on.As Lynn and I waltzed around the room, I was proud to be dancing with such an attractive woman. Yet, I could not help but glance over to Ron and Jill from. M. She went to their building and took a seat beside another lady to wait. In their twelve years of marriage she had never been to the pier to greet him on his return. She felt both fear and confidence as she chatted about mundane things with the rather pleasant but weather beaten young woman who sat beside her.At 10:15 Willi entered the lobby though the doors marked, "No Visitors Beyond This Point." He had several days stubble on his face and wore very soiled work clothing, and was carrying. A few of the teammates went back to their own rooms after that game, but there were still six of us left. The remaining girls were itching to try something else. We were in a foreign country, so it looked like prank calls were out of the question. So that left us only one option. Truth or Dare. Since we'd been playing an indirect form of "Truth" already, most of the girls were eager to move on to the "Dare" part of the game. We started small. There were a few dares to take more shots, a couple.