You all know it. I speak of botulism, or to use its full name, clostridium botulinum. All the major nations have studied this as a possible weapon, in...cluding mine, and yours, Michael. Most efforts have attempted to use it as an aerial spray, an aerosol, to spread over a large area so that people might inhale it and die. This is very difficult, and unpredictable. Clumsy attempts, mostly by Japanese terrorists decades ago, failed. And it is not easily used in liquid form to poison a city water. Going back to retrieve two coffees was a slight time waisting experience as within minutes I was standing over him looking directly down on the pussy parting tongue lashing he was administering to Pias lifeless body. He stopped and looked at me standing over him, running his eyes up and down the length of me as if just realizing I was also in the flat. His eyes stopped at my undown zipper and open front and a knowing smile broke out on his wizened face, ‘You been watching Mariel?’ he asked with. When we finished eating, we walked back to the house and went to join Tanya’s parents in the lounge.“Ah, Stephen Rayevich! Welcome!” Ivan Voronin said, greeting me.“Good evening, Ivan Konstantinovich!” I said.“Come, talk with us for a moment. I trust everything is satisfactory?”“Yes, very much so. We had a nice day together and had a nice meal. Thank you for allowing Colonel Anisimova to join us for dinner.”“You’re welcome. You treated her quite well, and she spoke highly of you, so I arranged. Katie even leaned against Brody's shoulder as though he had never touched her inappropriately. That relieved him a bit and helped him to relax and enjoy the evening.“Apparently, it WAS just my imagination about last Friday night,” Brody told himself. “Everything IS back to normal now," he happily assured himself.Katie snuggled close to Brody and squeezed his arm. That only confused him more. “Why didn't she stop me if she didn’t want it also," he still asked himself? “Maybe she does want us to.