But now I was able to head over there to do more than just window shop. I couldn't afford much to start with at first so I kept it pretty basic.But wi...th Suzy's help I soon was kitted out appropriately to be a littlesex kitten and bitch goddess all rolled into one.Those first few sessions with Suzy were a real eye opener. I got to seehow much planning Suzy put into them and how she set it up make sure theclient got what he wanted, what he needed, and got it in just the exactamount of time he'd. The Habakkuks never sailed. But what if they had?At a stately six knots, the H.M.S. Indefeasible plowed through the rolling swells of the Arctic Sea off the coast of Norway. She was an experimental ship, one of the first of the new Habakkuk-class aircraft carriers carved out of chunks of the Greenland icecap. She was an iceberg shaped into the semblance of a ship's hull by jets of superheated steam. An iceberg stiffened and reinforced with inventor Geoffrey Pike's miracle material, "Pykrete" --. .. we'll be leaving."He held out a clipboard and a pen.I took the pen from him and quickly scribbled my name,"Thanks for all you guys have done around here... It reallylooks wonderful."He straightened up and pushed the pen into his pocket, "Sothat's where you found the bodies?" Indicating the base ofthe large tree with his pen. I nodded, picking up my glass."I can't understand why you buried them back in there..."He shook his head, "It'd give me the creeps."I smiled and took another sip of the. “No. Maybe we could build a treehouse though?”“Maybe you could.”“Maybe I will.” She made a face at me, then burst out laughing. Shaking my head, I set up my easel and went to work. Eventually, she climbed down and sat on the swing, her tablet on her lap, fingers dancing on the screen.It was quiet. Not silent, though. It was the good kind of quiet. I could hear the leaves rustled as the breeze picked up. Birds chirped or sometimes sang, hidden in the tall grass of the field. The spring burbled.
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