." I told her how we'd have to start the brisket the evening before, low heat, smokey, all night."You're gonna wake up every two hours to check on tha...t?" she asked."Oh,, no," I said. "It's fully instrumented. It's got a wireless transmitter that'll hit a receiver by the bed if it needs tending." Oh, come on ... You're nuts." She smiled. "And I just LOVE nuts..." I got a kiss out of that."Just remember, cutie, if it's worth doin', it's worth overdoin'...Girlish giggle. "Just remember that after. I’m sorry.’ ‘Nothing to be sorry about. But what happened then? You had a bad experience and decided it’s too dangerous, so you gave it up?’ ‘Huh?’ ‘Did your partner ignore your safeword?’ ‘Safeword?’ ‘Oh, Harry…’ Ginny closed her eyes. Just as bad as she had suspected. Maybe even worse. ‘Harry. You know my friend Marcy, from work, right?’ He nodded slowly, unsure where this was going. ‘Well, she’s a bit like you,’ Ginny said, fully aware that this could turn into a disaster if he took her. For a moment she is tempted just to pull the covers up over her head and shut the world out until she feels like facing it again. Then with a sigh she throws the covers off her and swings her legs off the bed. Grabbing the curtains she pulls them open and looks outside. Another clear sunny day, she thinks and a smile curves her face. Reaching out for a hair band, she quickly ties her long dark brown hair up into a pony. Walking naked to the kitchen, she quickly starts the percolator. The aroma. Lei forced herself to stop fidgeting about the dress and jumped off the branch. It was time to fly low, and slow, and very visibly. She felt very naked without her bow. She couldn’t very well have brought it. When visiting a village of strangers, coming unarmed was needed to make a good first impression. Lei was amazed how long it took the beetles to spot her, she slowed her forward pace to that of a snail not to get alarmingly close before being seen. Apparently beetles didn’t look up much..