" The wallholo flickered, then displayed new data. "Asyou can see, Hael will be at its closest point to Sol in little over acentury -"The Luminary pau...sed as gasps filled the hall. All eyes darted from Idrato the wallholo and back again. Their reaction is understandable, shethought. I've seen it time and time again over the decades as our bestand brightest are confronted for the first time with this mortal threatto humanity."Projections indicate Hael won't pass directly through the solar. She kissed me tenderly,and said, "Thank you, James."I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her tight to me. "Pao, you are agreat girl, and you fuck good too."That produced a torrent of giggles, and she pulled me back into theshower to clean ourselves up for the second time. We eventually wentback to the bed and lay there, kissing and holding each other until weboth fell asleep.I woke in the morning to find myself spooning up to Pao's back. My armwas over her hip and she was still asleep. I. If you co-operate,you’ll do O.K., You don’t co-operate, and we make you pay. Understand?”Both girls nodded that they understood.“Good. I would hate to have to hurt you.”With that he placed hand, waist and ankle cuffs on both girls. Then a piece of duct tape overtheir mouths to prevent screams and earplugs to drown out all sound from entering theirears. Finally a black hood was d****d over their heads. The level of sensory depravationmade both girls panic. Not being able to hear scared Jennifer. I am trying to reach Mr. Karl Ellis." Beth was listening to whoever was at the other end. "Yes. That would be my mother."They continued talking for about a minute before Beth finished up. "Yes. I will. Yes. Thank you. That would be very much appreciated."When she finally hung up, she looked very sad. She went and got her mom and with both of us sitting there, she relayed everything she had learned. It would seem that Karl's wife had answered the phone, but then she handed the phone over to her.