<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cdc1/04s7432n614occi4g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chloe Dawson<br/>  ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾  </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Huguette selects a wine and opens it … tastes and accepts it … know she’d love to establish my cellar and I do plan to take her to the local magasin de vin at some point if we have the time … not this week though …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… the guac turns out okay … lovely chunks of Avocado and the heirloom tomato seasoned simply with the Meyer Lemon juice, pressed and chopped some more purple garlic, and a pinch of sea salt … use a mandolin to shave off thin slices of the Jerusalem artichoke … thin slice the and present the finished product to the two at the table … peel and thin slice the kohlrabi … carry the bowl and plate to the table … slide open the door to the balcony … evening breeze feels nice … take my seat at the table …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “If anyone wants crackers instead of veggies with their guac, there’s an assortment of open stale and unopened boxes, all past their ‘best before’ date, in the cupboard to the left of the refrigerator.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… put olive oil on my salad and dig in … focus on the flavor and 60 chews … an occasional dip into the guac … settle my mind … things to discuss after dinner … sip of the wine … is good … one glass for me will be enough … Huguette will probably drink more … finish eating what I wish … surprised I ate most of it …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… wait for Huguette to finish … she notices my attention … decide to speak for Kimmie’s benefit…</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “When we were together in time last night, you recall I trust the passing images of my previous lives and of yours too once we found where our lines diverged and went back from their. Do you believe there is any merit in me examining those in more detail? Would that be wise?”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… she considers the question … glances at Kimmie …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “No I don’t, Chloe. Prior lives are strong personalities inside us and to spend time among them strengthens them further. I trust you noticed that some of those were quite malevolent, often due to the tendencies in our mothers’ spouses. Leave them alone and consider your future, the risk is you’ll be dragged into the past and what you have before you is too important to risk.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… nod …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Thank you. I reached the same conclusion earlier today yet needed a second opinion.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… consider carefully the second topic …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “So I took a look ahead to the meeting with my department chair tomorrow afternoon. There were two others in his office that I did not know and that I had difficulty seeing. I could not hear what they said to me or how I responded. There are people I encounter around the university, usually faculty but occasionally students, all males, who seem hidden from my intuition, my inner eyes. They all seem malevolent, and indeed some of them have very rudely suggested I need to take them up on their invitations on dates. I feel i need to protect myself tomorrow afternoon. What do you suggest?”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… she considers …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Can you show me these two? Like we did last night but in the future?”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… shake my head …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “I do not believe I can, at least not until you too have foresight and maybe not even then. Nature of the thing. By the way, I do have the formula now to offer those who desire this curse. But I’ll not manufacture it until I have guidance from the gathering this weekend. Interesting, the formula is something that I make in my own body and then excrete as a catalyst into a new wine made with Nebbiolo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebbiolo) grapes. There’s a few vineyards over in New York that cultivate Nebbiolo so unfortunately we don’t have to go to Italy.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Huguette has had time to think about protection …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “I suggest as I assume you have too that the two with your professor are agents of the others. I suggest you choose several of your weapon rings and use a mild acid or something else that will let them know what you could have done but didn’t. I suggest this is a time to let the enemy know that we are aware of their increased interest in what you are doing. You have been trained in how to use those, I trust”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… nod …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Yes, a while ago. I hope it was enough. I doubt though they’ll be physically aggressive in that setting. So my usual wards should be sufficient. Those seem to have been fortified by the foresight, by the way. An interesting development to say the least.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… we go out to the balcony where I point out the sights to the two … finish our wine and call it a night …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… in the morning, I give Kimmie a kiss and swap car keys with her … in the lab, I detect that it’s been carefully searched overnight … the animals are unharmed … and the special hiding places have not been touched … but the whole thing may now be bugged so I’m careful with my movements … interesting that I could leave with nothing and reconstruct from memory … so leave the hidden paper alone … going to have to destroy it though … a half hour before I’d planned to leave to visit Tangie with Kimmie, there’s a commotion in the lab … one of the rhesus has gotten out of its cage … and is into the monkey food … get it recaptured and safely put away … it’s cage had been tampered! … send Kimmie a text …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  ### Unavoidably detained<br/>  ### Can’t make it to doctor<br/>  ### Luck and all</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… head back into the lab … several other cages have been tampered … rats too … set about repairing what I can and call lab maintenance to come and help … call my advisor to let him know … a flurry of activity follows and new cages and new security and all sorts of stuff gets done quickly … campus security bring in a forensic examiner …</em></span></span><br/>