He is planning on retiringlater this year, though, as he is sixty in a few months." Got a big party planned for that?" Nikki asks."Retirement or birth...day?" I reply. "Either way, it'll probably just asmall, family thing. And given that it's in July, it'll probably clashwith AngelCon anyway." Now THAT is a party I'm looking forward to!" Sarah giggles. "It'sLauren's wedding the previous month too, so we've kinda got a busysummer coming up, hehe! Which is for the best as I'll probably beworking all. I would do your ego good." My, aren't you the compassionate one?" he sneered. His expression changed to stone as he said, "They are there for our taking. There's no reason to spare them."It was at that moment that Rob entered the alley. He had stood beside the entrance and listened to Hugh spewing his filth and he felt he'd heard enough."Oh, look," Hugh said without turning. "It's the pet, come back to play I suppose. How thoughtful of you to bring take-out." Now he turned to look at Rob. "Tell. We like it when the struggle, makes it farmore fun for us. Now I'm going to lower the lid, so that's it put yourhead back, good girl, we don't want the merchandise knocking itself outbefore we get a chance to work on it now do, we hmmm?"Can you see the little monitor screen in the lid of your box bitch,that's just a little something to keep you company for the night wench.It will show a random selection of the sexual tortures we have to offerour 'special' guests here and very soon you will be. “Oh the cocktails, umm, yes let’s see that looks nice” Leonard said trying to recover, peering intently at the board and completely missing the smile of amusement on Leslie’s face.After Leonard initial stumble, the night went smoothly from there. The two of them talked for ages about all sorts of topics that ranged across the scientific and cultural board. As the continued their spirited discussion the consumed more alcohol, which had the desired altering affects the two scientists were.