We used to see each other when we paid rent, passed in the parking lot and when we were washing clothes. The washers were across the hall from my apt.... I had been there for about a year. I often kept my door open if one of the folks in the building I knew was doing laundry just to be social. This Saturday I was making a sandwich when Diane went by with her basket. I waved and said hi as she went by and invited her to come over once she got her stuff going. About 5 or 6 minutes she knocks on my. The bottom end was nine hundred kilometres deeper into the planet itself. All along the length more tractors were used to pass up the molten material from the bottom most manipulators. The lowest tractors would dip a small crystal into the bath of material and then extract it to partially cool. This happened many times with the material growing progressively larger each time. Other machinery worked on the rough crystal to remove impurities in the newest layer applied before it was re-immersed. They carted the suspects away, the three men still looking over their shoulders as though they expected Mike to start shooting any minute. From the look on his face Pat wasn't sure they were wrong. She had never seen him so angry. He turned to her and his expression changed to deep concern."Are you all right, Pat?" He deftly unloaded the live round from the shotgun's chamber and switched off the light attached under the barrel."Now I am," she swallowed. She holstered her weapon when another. I didn't answer her, I just got out of the car and came around to her side. I opened the door and helped her stand up. Then I walked her around to the back of the car. When I turned her to face the back of the car and started to bend her over the trunk lid, she stopped me."W-what are you doing, Master? What if someone sees us?" she said, uneasy."jewel, I already told you that we were alone here. There's no one here but the two of us. I wouldn't be doing this if there were others around."Do you.