‘Let’s go,’ she said, her voice quavering. ‘What are you going to say to her?’ he asked. ‘I’m not sure. I’m sorry?’ she answered. As... Fran got out of the van, she noticed an older man in the yard next door, wearing a straw hat. He was kneeling on a pad, the same green color as the grass, and pulling weeds from a flowerbed. He looked over, studying the arrivals. Fran smiled and waved. He waved back but kept studying the strangers without smiling. Fran walked around to where Tim was waiting.. In contrast to Parker’s 175 centimetres of menopausal flab, crowned with a jowly, orange-pansticked face and grey-blonde hair which she had for some mad, unknown reason styled in a feathercut, Jennifer was a short, slight Asian girl with hair in a neat, fringed bob. Her face was very young for her age of twenty-three, even causing her to be mistaken for under 18 when she went out to the pub with friends. She herself was allergic to alcohol, but a surly old barkeep had once called her ‘young. The other man approached from the side and yanked Ron up, then elbowed hisface. He cried out.Just then, a lone woman walked up approaching them from the darkness. Sheseemed to be wearing all black as she walked up to him with a smile. "HiMichelle," She said as she took her hand.She looked at Ron's face, blood was dripping from his split lip. Ron asked"What is this all about?" This is about you, Ron. What would your wife think of you taking this womanout for the night? What about your daughter?. We also spend time catching up on where I was back on Earth so I won’t be out of touch when I return. What’s been fifteen minutes for them has been a number of months for me.Joe adds a few more months to that time while doing his duty to the Damsels. One morning the last of the three ladies walks out to tell us she’s with child. Then Joe and I get the bum’s rush to our portal and back to Earth. Merry hands me a ring before shoving me through the portal.Back HomeArriving back in Joe’s basement I.