." But you'd still have stuff sitting around not earning money." Absolutely!" I reckon that Dobson and Sons are your biggest problem." Why?" They're u...nreliable." Go on." Trucks often arrive two, three hours, even a day late which means a backlog of shifting stuff from the shop floor. That was the reason that Wayne was working the way he was trying to catch up and dropping boxes on you and me. Are there penalty clauses in contracts for late deliveries?" Yes." So Dobson's are losing DRD money.. The flare lay on the floor and did a good job of illuminating the interior of the blockhouse.As nearly as we could tell, the blockhouse was an empty shell with no walls to break up the line of sight anywhere within the building. It was very much like a conventional airplane hanger back on Earth in the mid 20th century. The interior was a large rectangle with only one thing to break up the complete emptiness of the room: there was a squat, conical structure in the middle of the room that was. I allowed him to draw me in, my eyes following his gaze to the screen. To my surprise it was a map of the hotel we were staying at. He pointed to a section of the resort close to the beach. “I want you to meet me here tomorrow at 3pm.” “What is that you’re pointing to?” “My room. #820.” I let out a nervous laugh but my mouth immediately went dry. “Wow, that’s rather… confident of you.” His hand slipped from my waist and moved over the soft curve of my hip bone, brazen and daring as it continued. It is like a magic trick, where it is not the reality that counts, but what your eyes tell you they see. You will believe what your eyes see, even if it is an illusion.”“How do you mean, an illusion? I am not familiar with that word.”John said, “hmm, let me see ... the rainbow! The rainbow is an illusion, for there is nothing there in the sky.”“You jest, surely? When a rainbow forms, it is there: you can’t deny it, High Chief.”John said patiently, “What is there is what you are seeing; nothing.