"She's not a cheerleader! I'd know!" I protest. Damn! I didn't get hername."She wasn't human though, and neither were those nice pretty boys shehad pl...aying guard-dog." Boys?" The Ninjas. You did see the Ninjas didn't you Dougy?" Oh, them. I wasn't really looking at them. What was up with them?" No shadows." Like Splinter's dudes on TMNT?" No not like TMNT. I don't know what they were, but I think she's aKitsune." Oh." There's a long pause and then I ask, "What's a Kitsune?" just asthe elevator. They started descending just a few minutes after getting up, there was really no reason to wait.By noontime, they had descended another 1200 flights, averaging over 200 flights per hour. It was at that time they shared their last swallow of water. They paused for a brief conversation, and agreed they would not stop again until they either found water or were too weak to continue. They could not afford another sleep period, their bodies were drying out too quickly.It was now just after midnight;. Now this tinker was many centuries ahead of his time, having just discovered electricity last week, and created the electric light bulb the other day. He is just putting the finishing touches on his latest invention that he's going to call a battery. As with all the heroes of these stories, he dreams of adventure, and hopes one day to rescue a beautiful princess, who will be so grateful that she'll overlook his incredibly nerdy, and geeky appearance, fall in madly in love, marry him, and live. Shortly thereafter a tallish brunette woman entered the room wearing onlypanties, a suspender belt holding up dark stockings and a bra. She wasstrikingly beautiful, in her mid-thirties and had a ready smile for bothof us, instantly putting us at ease. She introduced herself and I toldher my name and introduced my mother."This is the first time that Derek has ever hired a t-girl," said Kate,giving me the once over. "I have to say if I hadn't known that you wereonce a man I would never have.