I willaid you for this experiment, Jaina."Jaina nodded, exhaling a breath she wasn't aware she had been holding.Her face broke into a joyous smile."Ve...ry well then. Here's the plan..."*** The portal opened like a rent through the smog-tainted air and thethree conspirators quickly stepped out onto the oddly colored rockyplain. As Vereesa made sure their arrival point was secure, Jainadropped the large bundle containing the costume and clothing for it ontothe rocks and closed the portal behind. Paron lay on the floor, blood streaming from his broken nose and the gap in his teeth, holding his ribs and moaning. His breathing had a moist, bubbling sound and Kat found herself wondering if one of the ribs she had broken had punctured his lung. She looked to see if he had been holding a weapon or something similar in the hand that had reached for her, but it was empty and there was nothing on the floor around him.Kat pulled one of her knives and crouched next to him, waving the knife in. There was a reassuring lack of factionalism. There was an apparent even-handedness about the complaints, but it was surely rare in the heated atmosphere of the last few months to find someone whose origin was in the Indian subcontinent who didn't side with either Pakistan or India. Indeed, there were plenty of good reasons to attack both parties. Neither democratically elected government had been exactly blameless, though Gabrielle suspected that in many ways they were just enacting what their. I have not abandoned my Sindara story just yet, a new chapter will added this weekend.SEXPO was always the biggest event of the year for the adult industry and the presenters spared no expense for the Tenth Anniversary in 2065. Ads were shown months in advance and the presenters apparently went out of their way to hire the most extreme and corny-sounding announcer for all the commercials.Natasha Xee was kicking off SEXPO 2065 with a live concert, and the totally extreme announcer made sure.