Just makes the corvette the bull's-eye of an even bigger, more inviting target, and you don't want to do that."Toddy pondered for a moment. "OK, look.... Your battle stations are the same as your collision stations. Just pretend it's a collision drill."Payne glanced back at his co-conspirators, and returned his gaze to Toddy. "I suppose that does make more sense..." he ventured."Please." ... and seein' as you asked all gentlemanly like that, we'll do it that way. Collision drill."Toddy sighed in. However, I am her dad and I gotta keep telling myself that. I shouldn’t be looking at her in that way She let herself in the front door and dropped her bag by the phone in the hall. She didn’t come into the living room but started creeping up the stairs. I crept out to the hall and was waiting at the bottom as she arrived at the top of the stairs. “Trying to catch me out again?” I quizzed. “Well I was hoping” she said. “Not tonight I’m afraid, once bitten, twice shy”. “Have you been on Omegle. Okay. So far, so good. Just as he’s read – he’d added a key, a doorway back to here so he could undo or add to his work, and he was implanting ideas. One more key ingredient and then he was done. ‘One final command, Ash. Whenever we are alone, you will refer to me only as Master, and you will end your sentences with ‘I obey’, ‘I submit’ or ‘Anything for my Master’. Understand?’ Another breathed yes. ‘You’re starting to feel really horny, Ash. You’re so very turned on. Anytime you’re turned on. Finally he was able to form words. ‘There’s enough, Teddy. Enough for twenty lifetimes’ he stopped to take a ragged, sloppy breath and continued, ‘The trick, Teddy, is to live long enough to enjoy it.’ With that his hand relaxed and Theodora thought death had finally taken him. Straightening slightly she watched his chest. Suddenly the hand beckoned her close again as he drew his last, wet, wheezy breath. ‘Keep me in your heart, Teddy, keep me alive.’ The hand fell limp and she finally became.