After Ardent had been transported by the machine, the villain was going to come back and reset the machine so that nobody could tell that it had been ...sabotaged. Ardent was now lost in time and that set up the rest of the series.There was some debate initially about how to work in the opening sex scene. A clever writer had come up with the idea that Ardent and her favorite technician were having a private celebration party about the completion of the machine. The technician could be anybody who. Quickly trying to stand he lost his balance and backed into the night stand, falling over it completely and smacking his arm into the closet door rather hard, enough to make me wince. I could tell he wasn't seriously hurt but asked if he was anyway, stifling laughter the whole time."Me hurt, no, just my pride."Limping out of my room I could hear Mark muttering a continuously growing number of curse words aimed at my night stand. He came back a few minutes later and just sat on the edge of the. ", the emo like Asian answered.He stepped in and then was motioned to a back bedroom. The room was small. A bed, a chair with a portable air conditioning unit on it, bed sheets up as curtains on the window. The bed was all ready to go with a towel laid out on it.Another young Asian woman came from another part of the house and said in well spoken English,"Hi. She was the finest in Hong Kong, that will be one hundred dollars now please." Okay. Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty and one hundred.",. " I had a normal and fairly happy childhood. I loved my mom and dad and I knew they loved me. I had friends, and although most of my relatives lived fairly far away, I was happy. All that changed when my mother died. I was 11 at the time and hadn't even known she was sick. I found out later that she had a rare form of Ovarian Cancer that was only detected when she only had weeks to live with no hope of cure, or even treatment." Things changed at home after my mom died. My dad and I were both.