.. yet he did not seem to take the hint."I'm sorry," Galina said, finally--sitting on the padded arm of Van-Meyo's arm chair while he read in the gall...ey; "are you gay?" Excuse me?" I know you're used to being around pretty girls," she speculated. "Am I just too common?"Van-Meyo put down his flatscreen and looked up at Galina."Common?" he asked. "Galina, you're gorgeous." So why don't you notice me?" Galina said, pushing her breasts forward between her arms. Between her half T-shirt, shorts and. He heard footsteps on the staircase outside. Best to be ready, he thought, and got to his feet, head bowed, before the door opened."Hullo Daniel," a husky voice announced.Daniel's heart sank. His hands nervously brushed imaginary flecks from his apron. He knew the voice, Julia Finch. And he knew what was going to happen next."Aren't you pleased to see me?"Daniel nodded reluctantly. The fact that she was there meant that she was still interested in keeping his secret; the problem was that it. I told my story to anyone who would listen, but BMA had already decided upon their set of 'facts' even before the fire was out. Sure, there might have been a 'bit' of a multi-dimensional leak, but 'fire crazy Zak Zyphyr' had to run in and play hero again and burned the place down to the very bedrock.This was the story that was given up the line to Imperial BMA, and no one particularly cared to scratch below the surface to sort the facts out. A major Zoroastrian Fire Deity? A rapidly expanding. "But what does it mean Daddy? Which two are going to Paris?" I asked, more confused now than ever. "Well I thought that Doctor Roderick S. James and his lovely daughter, Miss Stephanie Danielle James might just benefit from ten weeks touring the Continent," Daddy said smugly, a wide grin impossible to hold back. "But how? .... You have work... Where will we go? ... Really... really, just the two of us?" I stammered as joy flooded through me. "Doctor James has already told his colleagues.