<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/ea/Kawamura_hikaru002.jpg)</div><strong>Sentinel</strong><br/><br/>Natsuki woke with a soft moan.  She’d been having a very nice dream, one that left her a little flushed, and with a pleasant tingle all through her body.  What had it been?  Oh, yes, she’d been in the sweat tent with those two Cherokee girls…<br/><br/>The com chimed again and Natsuki groaned.  She checked the little screen on the machine and cued up her working avatar before slipping on her glasses.  Now she could see the transparent, glowing figure indicating the networking request from Rufus Miles.  Wihtout putting on her gloves, she needed to operate the controls on the com link itself to click the icon, but that was okay.  Augmented reality always made her vaguely dizzy.  It never had when she was growing up, but since awakening her heightened senses had always caught subtle failures in the cyber world that normal senses didn’t detect.  She stil hadn’t learned to tune them completely out.<br/><br/>She smiled at the speech excitement tuggling at her sexy lips.  “Thanks, Rufus, I’ll be there.”<br/><br/>A shower later, she ate breakfast wrapped in a towel, then got dressed, starting with a nice set of panties and shift, then a well fitted armored vest.  She checked over all her gear thrice that morning.  After lunch, she took the buss to case the meeting sight in her civilian idnetity, then spent a few hours more on normal activities before suiting up and driving over to the meeting on her growler.<br/>