There was a big project we were working on that had a short deadline and as fate would have it, we had to work late together, just her and I. I put th... drug in some tea, the woman loved tea and it was not detectable. It only took a few minutes to work and even before I expected it, I was nailing her on the drafting table; she even let me have her ass, a big bonus to me, not to mention it was a very tight ass at that. We were there most of the night and I was able to go around the world twice,. Barbara hadn't said anything during Steve's antics. Her only reaction had been an embarrassed flush that spread relentlessly up her neck to color her ears."If I could go on... ?" she asked, directing her question to the counselor. Mr. Houston nodded."By all means," Steve interjected.Barbara gave him a distracted look. This was hard for her. Steve's sarcasm and sardonic performance were largely wasted on her because she was concentrating so hard on what she had to say that she gave the byplay. Jibran saw the core dilemma facing our society. In a population of twenty-five million, there are over nine million children, and almost seven million of them were girls. The children represented 36% of the human population, and their care and training consumed a huge portion of the world's resources. How long could they last without supplies? And if we evacuated the child monasteries, where would they go?"I don't know Jibran." I sighed. "I think Bel'dar left us clues though in how he wants us. Carla told me what she knew about the dust bowl days because her great grandmother told her stories from when she was a child and how hard it was to see and breathe and that lots of people died from lung disease. I told her about a Ken Burns documentary I had seen that said it was a ten year drought with huge wind-storms and that the same thing could happen today because of climate change.She knew what I was talking about because of the drought that they were having and how hard it has been for.