“Who will I be afterward?”“He’ll be here in a moment,” he said before signaling to the twins who escorted us to move into position.I was nea...rly going out of my mind with panic and desire by the time another pair of twins came in with the two male voices who taught the children.“Nathan, you’re with that one again,” Kain said in Spanish to one of them, pointing at my Nathan.“Lucas, your soon to be acolyte would like to meet you before he becomes you.”Lucas grinned wickedly at me, then in Spanish. I said to Bob,Do you have a swim suit as I didn't see one and he said,Yeah its hanging up next to my towel,so he slowly turned away from me and walked over to the rack where his towel and suit were,but they were not swim trunks,they were speedo's,blue ones with the name speedo in white letters as I took a look. He stood next to me and said I'm going to put these on and if I slip a bit,you can hold me up,Geez I just started to talk to this guys upstairs,I'm not one of these jock types that walk. Then there was the work to do with our allies.The Pentagon could do slow draw downs and reductions saving lots of money. But the big issues would be political and take time.Troy handed me a note from Chief of Naval Operations. It was on the condition of the Hammann. It had traveled under its own power with JBG ships for escort to the JBG Masqat dry dock. Experts from Ingalls Industries - the builder of the Hammann - were waiting to inspect it.The Hammann had been escorted by twelve JBG fast. Go lower, mmm, yes, honey ... go down ...’I gave an involuntary gasp, followed by a slight splutter as some of the water from the shower sprayed between my half-parted lips. Perhaps, if that had not happened, I might have uttered words of refusal or at least of protest ... but perhaps, too, I might not. I felt quite detached, almost as if I was standing outside myself, as much an observer as a participant in this unfolding scene, and I lacked the willpower to contest the inexorable unfolding.