When you shut your eyes, the receptors stop working too’‘I can see infra-red?’‘Yes, most of you vertebrates can; but it doesn’t confer a lot... of benefit so it hasn’t evolved properly. We had to adjust your brain patterns to enable it’‘Cool’ was all I could think of to say, as I looked at the glowing breasts on either side of me. Then I looked at my erect penis, and nearly blinded myself. It was a pulsating beacon of brightness; my eyes adjusted and the penis dimmed, as did the two women’s. I couldn’t help getting angry, but I shouldn’t have raised my voice. I sighed grumpily at the universe. Sam slapped my ass, laughing hers off, as she joined me on the street.“You calmed down at all yet?” she asked. I gave her a crooked frown. I hadn’t even got to talk about what I had invited her to talk about.“I’m sorry. I just, I dunno. Not enough sleep and everything else.” I felt better for clearing the air. “I’ll run into her at Tara’s, apologize, and leave a stupid-sized tip.”“Wait,. Tom saw his horses ears perk up and turn as if hearing a sound in the distance. He looked at Cal and they both nodded to where the cornrows ended near the line of trees. Ahead they saw where the creek crossed the trail in a low water crossing. The trees lined both sides of the creek and the water was flowing in ripples across the sandy bottom. Tom heard a sound coming from their left as they neared the low water crossing. He motioned to Cal for to stop and dismount.Cal looped the reins of his. And much had changed for me, as well. I had spent a very long day in mid-August as a guest of the state police, as they questioned me about my activities over the previous 18 months. I was treated politely, as a foreign diplomat should, but there was no question that I was going to be interrogated. I believed I had little to hide, so I was forthcoming with as much as I felt they needed to know, and I also indicated that I was willing to share what I knew about the Germans. That put things on.