. Cosmos watched in horror as one timeline began to ripple. She looked along it, tracing it to the source. There!A massive hole in the timeline. She k...new this place. It was the great city of Midgar! Time wouldn't flow correctly without it! Then she felt more ripples begin, in various worlds. She looked to see what was causing them and each time she missed the event and found only a hole. But then she saw it. Rising into the sky was the Tower of Babel from a separate world. Red tendrils of power. Boyd?”“Will you trust me?”“With my life, if necessary ... if you’ll take me flying this instant!”“Are you brave enough to put your arm around my neck and fly with me - short skirt and all?”She never answered or hesitated as she stepped close on my right side and put her left arm around my neck – I left the ground so quick she sucked her breath into her lungs as if she were on a roller coaster. Not wanting to be seen, I quickly flew vertical for over two miles.“Mr. Boyd, how do you do this?“ She. My brother Jerry started to explain what I should do when I got a girl alone. He said stuff that made my eyes bug out. Stuff like how I should feel up a girl's ass instead of her boobs, because they liked it when a guy squeezed their asses. And how I should lick the hole where they do number two. Yuck! I told him I could never do that. But Jerry convinced me that once I did it, I'd never want to stop.I was scratching my head at this point not sure whether I should believe him or not. He did. He taught God and Math all at one time. ‘Just like Descartes,’ he said to himself with a chuckle and a smirk at the comparison. He left Guatemala fourteen years ago to teach at a boys’ prep school to the sons of the well-to-do. Of course, they needed God and Math, too. It wasn’t the same. He was just turning forty-two and those happier days were long past. He sat in the chair, in the dark, alone, wondering how solitude would suit him. ‘I wanted to stay.’ he said out loud with some conviction..