They had spent enough time together, been through so much, that he felt comfortable describing them as such.After a while, the table was littered with... empty glasses, the bowl of tobacco almost used up as the aliens took their last puffs. Jaeger was pleasantly tipsy, while Baker was as wasted as it was possible to get on such small quantities of drink and herb, already beginning to drift off to sleep on the pile of cushions. The aliens were still very much alert and awake, on the other hand,. I held out my hand in greeting, and made an effort to be polite."My name is John Haysworth. Pleased to meet you Mr..."The old man smiled enigmatically. "You may call me Sayasu. That name is as good as any." This is exactly the type of behavior that so often infuriates me when dealing with 'mystical' people, but for my wife's sake I made a heavy effort not to show my frustration. Instead, I asked the question that was on my mind."So where are the members of this class?" In response, I received. “Okay then. You got it. I’ll have Beverly put the contract together. Be a day or two. Okay?” he said.“Oh yeah,” I said. The man had a helluva grip; shaking hands with him was a challenge.I headed back to work. I actually did have a lot to do.“I heard,” said Lance. “Everybody’s talking about it. And the office is picking up the tab?”“Yes, sort of,” I said.“Sort of?” he said.“I had to promise to work here exclusively until I die,” I said. “But I want to anyway. It’s where my roots are, and where. “You found a formula? Why don’t you tell your mother? You know, the professor of mathematics?”He looked at his mother and said, “The guy takes his age and divides it by two, and then adds seven. I just turned fourteen, so if I divide by two, I get seven, and then add seven I get back to fourteen. Cool, huh!”“Uh, huh,” she said drily. She gave me a look that meant,’ Do something!’Before I could bury him in the back yard he asked, “How old are you, Dad?”“Don’t go there.”Riley answered, “He’s.