”“Thought so. What’s your name?”“Cam.”“Short for Cameron?” She looked to see him nodding and noted the squareness of his jaw. His wide... mouth was set in a straight line across his face. Bet his face lights up when he smiles, she thought.They had reached the copy room and Karen opened the door and switched on the light. The last pages of her document were sliding into the tray. She motioned him inside and closed the door behind them. The lock button inside the door knob snicked into place quietly. The tree, it’s gone!” Carla turned to Tom and linked. “Can you believe what I think?!” she thought in a burst of astonishment.Tom nodded and suggested she verbalize her idea to the group. Carla broke the link and said, “Tom and I think the storm was a well managed version of a forest fire. The storm thinned the forest and took out diseased wood.”“Selective pruning,” Tom added. “Perhaps this world is more actively managed than my group first thought.” He looked around for a moment and then got. He’s got a boner!“You really must have liked it.”“Why do you say that?”“Just look at the bulge in your pants. That looks like a boner to me.”He drops both hands to his crotch to cover up.Suddenly, there is a knock on the window. It’s Mona.Paul rolls down the window.“I saw from my bathroom window that you were still parked here," she asks, “What’s up?”“We are having an earnest discussion about guys having sex. Do you have a minute?”“Sure.”She gets in the back seat and leans toward us through the. I just closed my eyes and tried to focus on my core, hoping to find a solution to my shock-induced paralysis. In my current state of mind, even trying to calm myself was proving to be a Herculean task.What I found once I could focus on my core was shocking, to say the least. Instead of the vibrant and pulsing core, I usually found, I was astounded to discover that my core seemed devoid of motion in general, almost as if it had been paralysed too. I instinctively knew that whatever Tom had done.