’ K rolled her eyes, ‘yes, I am in top shape too you know. Hell, I’ll be hobbling right beside you!’ Les laughed, ‘yea. But you go dancing... and I don’t dance.’ K slapped her hand on her forehead, ‘you don’t have to get out there and two step and triple step with me. Just slow dance with me when they dim the lights. Hold me close and move to the music with me.’ Les blue eyes got a funny look in them and he looked away. K put her head on her arms, ‘I will not apologize for falling in love. “I can do you a good glass one for twenty five Florins,” the jeweller offered, “The slipper we calls it on account of it being so smooth that it slips in easily. “The glass slipper.”“Why so cheap?” Buttoni asked.“Second hand, was the wife’s mothers, cunt like a bucket, it just needs a bit of a clean.”“Done!” Buttoni cried not realising he had been done as the glass was actually made as an apprentice piece and twice the size of any other.================================================Buttoni. "You give back?" What's going on?" an Officer intervened. He stared at the old man, then the piece of paper."Pretty paper, you give back?" Give him his paper," the Officer ordered, "he's an idiot!" But sir? He has no identity..." Because he can't fucking read, you fool. He probably burnt them to keep warm. Boot him up the arse and let him go. We've got more important things to do." Go on," the soldier said, "you heard the Officer, piss off!"The old man shook the reins and lurched off. Some way. Not only did they produce the battery, they produced super-efficient electric motors to go with them. Then they started producing the complete drive train. The company has expanded several times plus adding a second and third shift.Adam had worked on the speech. I read the hard copy, made some suggestions, asked some questions and sent it back for refinement. I would test speak it with the teleprompter at lunch.Grady Sinclair from the State Department was back; I spent the rest of the morning.