The rest of the evening Flo was very silent, and all day Saturday too. But Saturday evening we made love and Flo seemed to be exceptionally turned on ...even before we got started. My conclusion was that she had received the game card and had decided to accept the challenge.I knew then that starting the next day I was going to have to start watching Flo very carefully if I was going to stop her from attaining her objective.Over the next several weeks I witnessed nothing unusual in Flo's behavior.. . themselves. The sound of loud rushing water droplets in my shower stall gave me a soothing environment to think.No… there’s no way. I mean, I guess… There’s probably… Yeah, there’s got to be a way for me to...But, how the hell was I supposed to do it? My brother was in the stall behind me showering away probably relaxed as all hell with all the field trips he and Amalie took down to the spring alone, while I was stuck playing cards with Ma and Dad at the campsite. I was so jealous, so angry. The Shaman had all but commanded her to sit out this fight, so what did that make of her? What good was a protector who could not be relied upon to protect?Not knowing what else to do with herself, she made her way out through the palisades, heading to her favorite basking rock on the outskirts of the settlement. As she felt the sun’s warmth energize her, and she closed her eyes, she couldn’t stop her mind from wandering to thoughts of the strange battlemage. Her curiosity was even more of a. The ship's communications dish resembled an earth-designed parabolic reflector used for microwave signal focusing and beaming, most commonly seen as household satellite television dishes. The Masi'shen version did not use microwave radio signals, but the principle was similar. The purpose was to focus the radiated energy into a tight beam for aiming at a receiver, similar to a searchlight beam. Conversely, the much weaker received energy would be collected from the area of the dish and directed.