His body pressed in against hers, feeling the warmth of her petite frame tightly against him, squeezing her back against the marble sink. The day had ...been so painful, being so near yet so far away, having to hide his true feelings and confine his hearts desire. His judgment was clouded like never before, his words so truthful yet out of character, as though she had cast a spell over him, mesmerizing him with her beauty. ‘Oh Jake.’ She panted into his ear, the magic of his fingers driving her. He just sat there pale as a ghost. Bailey saw the blank look on Jones's face and he knew something was wrong, "Are you ok?"He didn't look up, "I ... I don't know."There was a tone of concern in Bailey's voice, "What do you mean you don't know? Did you talk to Edith?" No. I couldn't get her on the phone." So who were you talking to all this time?"Jones's hands were shaking on the table. "I talked to my family. They haven't heard from Edith in several weeks. My mom was a little upset that Edith. ”Albert said something to Shawn in a language I never heard and Shawn nodded.” Aye we could try that.”“What did he say?”Shawn punched the other. “Don’t speak that German-Irish gibberish he doesn’t understand the old Engineering Language.”Albert grinned sheepishly. “Sorry Captain. I am just so happy that I found Shawn who speaks one of the old engineering languages that we started to use it.”I had no idea what he was talking about but nodded anyway.” That’s fine. Can you make a TransDim. I flipped the latch, pushed the door open and peered inside. I could see that the room had been used for storage; there were still a couple of boxes on the floor, a couple of chairs sat against one wall, and something fairly big covered by an old sheet. Everything had a thick layer of dust on it. I pulled the sheet off. There before my eyes was an old weight bench, with a barbell resting on the rack, several twenty pound weights on each side and a couple of other short bars with ten pound.