Are you sure you want to stay and talk about what we decided?" Yeah, Brenda, I'm fine now. It just hit me wrong with the words and the actions your fa...ther made when he came in. I think I will be very glad his gun is put away before we tell them what we decided." Why would you think that, Bob?" Well, we are going to say that we feel something very strong between us and we want to eventually be steady boyfriend and girlfriend, yet I get to go out on three dates with Sam and I have a 'meet the. . who goes first?”“I was going to, but, sometimes it helps if I get, you know, a bit more in the mood first. Maybe you can have a free dare to start? Something easy maybe?” She was already on edge, but she was procrastinating a little, warming up to the idea, figuring if he started it would make it easier to ask her truths. Easier for her to speak about such things out loud if she was aroused.“Sure, who could say no to that. Of course, with you wearing your bracelet, you are basically saying. “Do you want her tonight?” Zoë pulled the door closed behind Xiomara but, carefully, Zoë didn’t talk above a whisper.“Um, I--” I shook my head, “I’m kind of dating Kia, aren’t I?”“That’s up to you,” Zoë clicked her tongue. She gestured to the door and her friend beyond it, “Seriously, she’s going to go social butterfly when we arrive. If you want her, go grab her and yourself a drink and just interrupt the first boy that she lets drag her into a corner.”“Yeah?” I doubted.“Yeah.” Zoë nodded, “Or. Too much fog and cloud cover. But, when you map a large enough area, you can see that this range of hills has an almost constant curvature. When we integrate that curvature against the magnetic field, they match fairly closely. The science boys back at company headquarters say that this whole swamp area could be what's left of an ancient ringwall." A meteor crater? But, it would be almost a thousand miles across!" More like about six hundred, actually. There are larger ones known or suspected.