He came to the door and said to come in, he and some friends were hanging out downstairs playing video pinball. The usual.So, we went down and there w...s Mike, Ben, Ryan and Barry, all guys I know from school, though Ben and Ryan are in other classes and I really only knew them a little.Tim asked me if I wanted to play and I told him I wasn't all that good, I'd just watch. I probably would have played if the other guys weren't there but I figured they were way better than me. So I just sat on. I was going to take a look around.The building is twenty-six floors. It took me the rest of the morning.When I got back to my office after lunch, I opened my computer and scanned the long list of emails I’d received in the past thirty-six hours. I’d set up a filtering system so that only mail from my team showed up in my inbox. That cut the volume to only fifty or sixty messages. Three-quarters of those I could ignore. I had the meeting requests for the team meeting on Friday morning and my. ”“What if she wants to go east with her uncle?”“She won’t. She’s happy right here and she is of age.”“I agree.”Chance led the way, fast enough so there was little conversation. When they pulled into Ron and Mary’s yard, they got down from their mounts. It took just a few minutes to catch up that both Sam and Chance were home. Hamilton was introduced and the reason why they were headed for the Taylor farm.Mary spoke up, “I think I’ll go up to see Rita before she goes back to the Barkley spread.. . with a little help from Houdini." Timing broke out is his best rendition of myrrh yet. POP The funnyman was gone.In the brief second that this conversation took place, Phillip Harbormaster called the meeting to order."Here now, you layabouts, if you don't have anything except curiosity, get your butts ... and buts ... out. NOW!"That put nine out of ten bystanders out of his quarters ... not that it mattered, the ejected swarmed the window hatches.The building wasn't your normal split plank.