‘Was I wrong?’ ‘How’d it go?’ He didn’t answer her question. ‘Fine, I waited for them to leave, put the notice on the door and assigned ...someone for door duty. I have the key here. It’s in my briefcase.’ She let the file drop into her lap. ‘Did I do wrong?’ ‘No, Jimmy did.’ And he could have gotten Nick’s butt in a bigger sling than it already was in. But he didn’t tell her that. There wasn’t any reason to let her worry about it. He wasn’t going to. He changed the subject. ‘So what do you think. I’ve seen her inthese flirty (maybe horny is more accurate) moodsbefore, when she has had one too many, so I wasn’t theleast surprised when she whispered in my ear to ask ifit would be all right if she took off her top. When Iasked her why, she said to even out her tan. I gladly agreed, even though I knew that her tan wasthe last thing on her mind. She did it in a way onlypretty women seem to be able to do these types ofthings. Instead of just popping it off and showing theguys all. [Editor's Note: The "PathMaker" was a very heavily customized Nissan Pathfinder that was both lengthened and widened to something close to the size of a Hum-Vee, while being much more comfortable at the same time.]"Sure. Last minute shopping?" Yeah. I just thought of something I wanted to get for Kat, and couple of the others need to do some last minute stuff as well," she replied."Okay. Just be careful with all that snow out there. Just because it has 4-wheel drive doesn't mean that it's going. It was one of the reasons I was so good at what I used to do for a living."Okay, got it," I said when everything was in place."Now, feel the Fullerene. It's made up of lots of long tubes, isn't it?" It is," I agreed as I 'tasted' the shape of the molecules."Now," I could almost hear Bud take a deep breath. "The reason they need to apply heat and pressure to this is to encourage the molecules to change from 'this' to 'this'," he sent two images to me and I saw how the molecules changed, flexing.