"Maybe you don't need to rest your body, but I need to rest mine."Ree'al was surprised. In his desperate need for more information, he'd forgotten the...ir enmity. She had agreed to a detour without arguing or demanding to know why he was in such a hurry." We can walk today," he agreed. "And thank you for coming so far out of the way with me."Now it was Lormia's turn to be surprised. "That must have hurt," she said to him."Not as painful as I thought it would be," Ree'al grinned. "But don't expect. ..! Lisa dashed out under Aunt Emma's arms and down the stairs, Running outside and down the street, looking at all the freshness of the street inviting him to stay. No--no--no! He reached Jack's house."Why, hello Lisa!" Jack's mom said just as the little girl bolted inside and up the stairs. Jack was just coming out of the shower andgasped and wrapped the towel around him at the sight of the little girl."Lisa?? What you doing here??" Jack, you've got to help me!!" her voice squeaked. "Help me. You are to be promoted to Wing Commander; your main job will be to bring the new squadrons up to scratch. Tim and Dave are promoted to Squadron Leaders for the two new squadrons. They will be based at RAF Mainton on Salisbury Plain, I’m afraid you will still have me a Station Commander. Let me be the first to congratulate you,” he said shaking the hands of the surprised pilots.“Now you have a month’s leave due you, starting tomorrow after your investiture for your medals, Air vice Marshall Sir. We started thinking about technology. We began just imagining things , exploring possibilities and then underwent a subtle shift to invention. This was fun, there was a joy in this process and a merging that was almost like making love. This did have the side effect however of making us both horny. We both thought this was a weird response, laughed about it, and felt both very loving and very loved. We barely noticed as we shifted roads to the eastbound interstate. In three hours we had come.