Will you receive me this evening?'Amina quickly crouched down on her Persian rug. Kneeling was difficult without arms for balance, but she had practic...ed a lot. 'It would be an honor, your majesty. Please enter.'The door swung open. Amina shifted her weight forwards, fell onto her knees and bowed her head.'Rise,’ he commanded.Slowly she put one foot forward and used it to pull herself back up.Sultan Hakim stood in front of her, wearing nothing but a small, open vest and a pair of his poofiest. Then slowly the folded section of bridge beganlifting upward at the back, opening out as it slowly extended out andover the first missing span. It was fully extended and coming downslowly.Pointing to the back of the tank body TooTall drew my attention as Iwatched it lifting up under the extended weight of the bridge. Suddenlythe back raised clear up off the ground, rocking forward on the front ofthe tracks as the end of the bridge slammed down hard onto the concretesupport in the middle of the. I had doubts maybe once or twice about being there then I had a couple of drinks the doubt went away we bullshitted a couple of moment.. First for everything do you want to take a walk with me to the garbage sure what the hell was I thinking so we go outside down to the garbage in the walkway he pushes his cart he Emory's the stiuff comes back to me and says you look cold and puts his arms around me ok next his tounge in my mouth it felt like a big invasion of my mouth but I was rolling with. "No, I meant Robert." Did I hear my name?" Robert asked, coming through the open back door."You're home early," Mrs. Williams said as her son brushed her cheek in his usual perfunctory kiss, tickling her neck with his whispy beard. "We were talking about love, Annie and I were, woman talk. You wouldn't be interested." Which one of you's in love?" Robert asked, sorting though the bowl and picking a very small, brown-spotted apple from last year's meager harvest."I was thinking of you," his.