They are not that good as a fighting force but they will stand up to the Russians well enough when they arrive here in six hours." What?" He yelled on... the phone."The Russians tried to take the country from the Cuban people. I stopped them for now but there was a six-ship flotilla coming. Three may be induced to leave. I have a lot of equipment on hand that could be of use, if the army knows enough about them to make use of it." What is that?" The warehouses and ships are full of tanks, trucks,. ’ ‘I made your favorite dinner, and picked up a copy of Holy Grail for us to watch tonight.’ She couldn’t keep a triumphant note out of her voice. ‘And ice cream. But that’s for me.’ ‘If there is an entity above goddess, you’re it.’ Ben leaned down and kissed her. ‘I’ll feed you the ice cream.’ Emily laughed, then gave him a teasing smile. ‘Pity you’re so tired. I thought we might be able to do some…other things tonight. But that’s okay.’ ‘Yeah.’ He paused. ‘Wait. What other things?’ She shook. “I want you to finish rinsing off and I’ve left some things out there for you to wear. I’ll be right in.”“Okay, Uncle Jeff. Whatever you say.” She turned back into the steaming spray and let the pelting water wash off the bubbling lather. When she finished and stepped out of the shower, I moved underneath the shower head and let the hot steaming water cascade down over me. I cleaned myself thoroughly and by the time I was done, she had left the bathroom and gone into the bedroom. As I dried. But just as he was recalling a particularly steamy moment in the sauna a few weeks before he defected as a teenager, he was jerked back to fluorescent-lit reality by a voice at his side. It was the absurdly fit, black-glasses-wearing American businessman seated next to him, who had pretended not to recognize Huysmans (despite his having made the rounds of all the talk shows upon the release of the recent sequel to the movie made from one of his stories, The Sapphic Pirate Miranda 2: Between the.