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stories. Did she know who she was?
    Whether she did or didn’t it could wait for another day. She’d finally found what she had been looking for, two little black discs.
    “These are thought responders. I already have a pair wired into my head. If you wear these you’ll be able to communicate with me by thought.”
    I nodded and she stepped closer and started to place one in the area behind my left ear. I watched her pink lips move, as she spoke, “There will be a little sting as it connects to your resident electrical focus.”
    “My what?”
    Her lips split apart in a grin that showed her pearly white teeth, but she didn’t answer. There certainly was a sting to it, I acknowledged, as I winced against the pain of it adhering to the side of my head behind my ear.
    She went to work on my other side. She was tall standing perhaps only less than an inch off of my 6’4”. I liked that. Her tongue came out to lick her lips, as she concentrated on lining the disc up right. Her lips glistened in the sunlight, as I felt the sting of the second disc. She was saying something and I tried to focus to hear what it was past my fascination of watching her lips move.
    “Now I’ll be able to hear your thoughts.”
    I blinked hard, all of my focus suddenly on her, as my eyes darted to hers. ‘Don’t do it!’ I silently screamed.
    Oh rats! She did it.
    I inwardly cringed, as I watched her face blush with an intensity of color. Trying to ease out of a terrible social blunder I threw up a hastily contrived defense, “Boys will be boys.”
    She shot through that excuse with one disapproving look and I cringed visibly this time. Honestly I admitted, “I’m sorry if I offended you.”
    She looked down her face still the color of crimson and said, “You didn’t offend me. Just shocked me a bit is all.”
    “A bit?” I said disbelievingly.
    “Okay a lot.”
    “Sorry.” I said hopeless to change what she’d seen in my thoughts.
    She glanced back up her blue eyes alive with a speculative gleam as she stated, “I guess you have this partnership going a lot further than a standard working relationship?
    “I have only the finest of intentions in concern to you Flicker.” I said heartfeltly.
    She nodded and something seemed to relax in her still rosy face, “It should be an interesting experience for both of us then.” She said husky voiced.
    She left me suddenly then fading away into the jungle.
    This just wasn’t right! A girl being able to read a guy’s thoughts at will! It was fiendishly diabolical!
    “I heard that.” Came the distinct thought within my consciousness.
    “Darn it!” I fumed out loud, but I heard nothing back in reply from the jungle, but the usual jungle sounds and the sense of someone laughing at me inside my own head. I reached up to tug at one of the discs, but it wouldn’t budge.
    Morosely I let my hand fall defeatedly back to my side, as I acknowledged the sad fact of the matter that I had just gotten suckered in and had lost the battle of the sexes without contest.
     

Chapter Seven
    Honor Defended
    I stepped into the apartment fully expecting to find Jane gone and it was somewhat of a surprise to see her rise up out of a chair at my entrance. “I got it, actually I got two. One is for a backup in case we need it.”
    “Excellent! Good thinking on your part.” Jane responded.
    I gave her an odd look, as she seemed rather bubbly. I passed over the two nondescript items that I’d almost gotten poisoned to death over in several different fashions.
    I couldn’t but help ask, “Why are you so upbeat?”
    She glanced up from the items in her hands, “To tell you the truth I didn’t really think you could succeed, but now that you have I see hope in this mission. It will be a good thing to see my research actually do some good.”
    I nodded and thought ‘and get paid for it’, but I kept that thought to myself. Her reasons for being bubbly seemed plausible enough, but there was just