Kelsy could hear the belt as I took it off my pants.“Dad, Please, NOT the Belt.”“Dad, don’t, I’ll be good, I promise.”I double the belt ov...er and whooshed it around. Kelsey flinched. I whacked her buttSoftly, maybe 1/3 force. I could sense the relief as she grunted slightly. I did againeasily. With relief Kelsey urged me on. “Ok, Dad, lets do it.”Without warning I brought the belt down high to low on the top of her butt.She screamed and stood up. “Put those fucking hands back on the. “Their job is to scout for weaknesses, not engage the Vultoqi. We have the Alliance and the Yr’ch forces to do that if an opportunity arises. Nor would we abandon them if things went wrong.”“Let us hope they are successful,” Taqual nodded. “Ah, here we are. Usanna and I will wait in the ante-room for you. I wish you success.”We bade them farewell and then were escorted by a guard through the beautifully maintained grounds to another doorway and through into a comfortable room to await the. Nothing small was left loose and Goosey watched everything very closely.Soon the general public was allowed in but only in small numbers at a time. Jonathan and Jerome this time managed to start talking with people they knew before. It took only seconds to see how shallow they were. Usually they wondered what they had ever seen in the children. Jonathan was that way too and he was even five years younger than some.Jonathan's father didn't make any speeches but came up to the crew and put his. ”“Interesting. I guess I need to read up on this.”“You have an account on this Unix system. Just login and use ‘nn’ to read news. Subscribe to alt.hypertext and you can read the proposal.”I finished my lunch, answered some e-mails, and then got into my zone for the afternoon, and cranked out quite a bit of code. Tasha brought Sam back to my office at the end of the day.“What do you think?” I asked.“I think you should hire me. Right here. On the spot.”I chuckled, “I do have to talk to the rest.