. brother number one, brother number two, brother number three. Wes was brother number two... so he started calling himself ‘Deuce.’”He was star...ting to wind down so I asked, “What do we do?”“Is Boris still listening?” he asked quickly.In response a voice chirped in my ear– and Sam’s, “I’m here. What do you need?”“The Blue Deuce,” Sam said firmly and slowly, “has led a charmed life. Someone has been protecting it. Someone has squashed any investigation and warned Walter of any impending raids.. Especially not this one.Komei found herself feeling strange. Everything tonight had been soweird. She had been watching TV with a coke not three hours ago as aguy, and then before she knew it, she was a girl hanging out in herroommate?s room watching anime with him and analyzing her entire life.Thanks to the pollen she had managed to take it all in stride for now,but how long could the pollen possibly keep it up? Was it still workingeven now?As her body made her get up again, she got her. “Then there’s another option,” she offered. “If we had a boat, we could take couples out for a two-hour cruise and let them try out new toys. I’ll bet that would be a ride everyone would want to take.”“I think we’ll have to invest in a boat,” David said seriously. “We won’t be able to wait for the twice a day taxi service from the big island. Why don’t you ask Anna and Tim if they have any contacts?”“Silly boy,” Diana laughed. “I’ve already done just that. Anna has more contacts than Tim on. As the man continued to fall in love with this person, he realized that her complexity reminded him of a book. Not just any dime-store novel, that one could read in a night and then discard, but a rich, fully-developed epic, far more engaging than anything that he had ever read before, and he was considerably well-read. She was the kind of book that at times he could not put down for days on end, and at other times he needed to tear himself away to contemplate and digest what he had read before.