” She retorted, a hint of a smile in her voice and then, there it was, the sound of her damn zipper making me hard and forcing me from my heroic loo...king squat so that I could discretely adjust myself while I ignored her smug little titter. “I would know.” “Sometimes you can be such a…” I shushed her with a gesture, feeling a twinge of pride at her sudden stillness and the predatory look in her impossibly blue eyes as she focused on the bridge connecting the Island to Radium City or, more to. Before Helen could say anything, the women gathered around her, each hugging and kissing her. "You looked sexy," Margaret said. "Evie and Dave had urgent business in their apartment as soon as breakfast was over. And if I hadn't taken pity on Frank — since he's already done his duty this morning — we would have had some of that same business to take care of," she laughed."Okay," Diana said, glancing at her husband. "It looks like our man is trying to tell us that he's hungry. I guess we had. For the fun of it, he decided to call this new time interval a q-sec, and cycles per q-sec would be called susans.Jim rebuilt his frequency generator to operate in susans instead of hertz and tried it out. Bulls-eye! He could now adjust the position of his portal with high precision. The next step was to measure how much frequency change was required for a kilometer offset (he switched to metric for measurement convenience). Back calculation gave him the value of 15.763 mm per susan.He now had. ”“Sissy, I’m proud of you and Joe, too. Joe, you got more reasons to be extra careful out there now.”“I know, we’ll be even more watchful this time, Eli.”Sissy turned to hug her daddy and Joe shook his hand before they rode out of the barn and off into the darkness toward the river.Eli stood for a long time, staring off into the darkness after them before turning and walking back to the house. The family was up and the women were cooking breakfast. The young’uns were raring to go.Miranda came.