Since he would be traveling so far Jason needed to get some idea of what the nodes he would be traversing would be like as well as the destination nod...e. There was the distinct possibility that some nodes were divergent enough from his home node to be dangerous and that was a possibility Jason needed to guard against. For example it was possible he could encounter a node where a nuclear war had occurred, or large scale natural disaster. This was the reason why his transfer pod was designed to be. Just because you wear pantyhose nowinstead of boxers doesn't mean you don't still think like a man. Menonly want sex, and I am here to give you what you want."I could smell the wine on his breath. I did not think he had drunkenough to really be inebriated yet, but with his biological tendencytoward alcoholism I wondered if the small amount affected him more thanit would have affected someone else. I also wondered if he had beendrinking before he arrived.He refused to release me, and was. I remained passive until you returned from the horse acquiring mission, but when I saw the enormous amount of work ahead of you in making proper facilities for them I decided to help." Did they allow you that kind of leeway?" They encouraged me to stay out of things unless you needed something desperately, but left the decision up to me. Since they are no more it hardly seemed to matter." What happened to them?" I asked."The crew members were almost evenly divided between those who wanted this. I pulled off the tank top and hung it up too, leaving me in my underwear and hiking shorts. I sat down on the blanket and grabbed some sunscreen from my pack. I stopped for a moment and listened for a moment as I thought I heard a noise. I held up my hand to block the sun and scanned the lake shoreline but there was no one in sight. I got up and walked a little way past the trees to see if anyone had come up on the trail plateau but there was no one there. I found the idea of the lake being.