‘I love you.’ ‘Love you too, sweet heart,’ he sighed, ‘Don’t know what I’d do without you.’ ‘What did you do without me?’ she ask...ed, looking up at him, ‘When you went away that time?’ He sighed and was quiet for a long time, thinking. ‘I was lost.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I didn’t recognize anything or anyone for that matter. I was an absolute wreck, El. You wouldn’t have recognized me.’ ‘Where were you when Jacob found you?’ ‘I was passed out on my bed at ten in the morning with the landlord. They were after all guests in his home.He started to turn away heading back towards his own room when he noticed that Marianne's nipples were erect. Popping nicely through the tee shirt. As he looked her right hand slid up from where it had been lying by her side and ran almost absentmindedly over her breasts, caressing and pulling on her nipples then gently cupping and holding them. Stirring slightly she put down the book. She closed her eyes and he saw her legs move under the sheets. She. We had already made arrangements so it didn't take too long to transfer our equipment to his vehicle and start off. The trip would start nearly thirty miles up river but we made it to the put in point before noon and quickly unloaded everything. We ate lunch before we started off but in forty minutes we had all our gear stashed in the watertight compartments of the two boats and pushed out into the water.This trip was not white water or anything like that. Some Class 2 stretches but mostly just. The various systems on the ships were analysed and more information came to us. Again I was struck by the use of sophisticated equipment made and maintained as if the theories behind the mechanisms were not known. It was as if the spiders just mimicked Tandra equipment as best they could till it worked. Some fine tuning was done but all of it was logical with no intuitive jumps.The shield units in particular looked this way now that there were more samples to examine. Some simple devices could.