Seeing and being with Derek again was wonderful. Little did Derek know that I had planned for it to be like the old days, when we shared everything fr...om football to girls. When we got back home, Joy said she was very tired and was going to bed. She said she would leave us guys to talk and remember old times. After a long talk and many laughs, Derek complained of being tired and I ushered him to the quest room. When I slipped into bed with Joy, I was surprised to find she was totally nude. She. She turned into the parking lot of the Shangri-La Motel and went into the office. A few minutes later she came out and drove down to the end of the building and parked. She got out of her car, got her overnight bag out of the trunk of the car and then went into unit 116. Five minutes later she came back out, got in her car and drove away. I found a place where I could park and keep an eye on 116 and I sat back and waited. Since Sally rarely came home late I didn't figure that I would have to. ”“No!” She sat the beer in front of me and went to the other end of the bar.Shot down with ease.I let my eyes pan the room as I sipped. For some reason, I looked at the woman sitting next to me after I looked at the whole room. About thirty, she had a wry expression on a very pretty face framed by brown hair. Her best feature was big chocolate eyes.“Was that a pick up line?” she asked.“Yes. Really worked, didn’t it?”“The bartender is right. It is a lousy line. You should try something. I was a ship passing through their lives and the rules were the rules, no gray areas to exploit. While they were women of Chaos and knew their place, discussing the advantages for Cassandra in the terms of status and education had a grass is greener pull for them. Life for women on Chaos was not easy. That is why this adventure was so important to them. With a Hero on an adventure they were free of those disadvantages for a while.I began to understand why Samuel had taken people with him. Sure.