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Chapter 8 by amalgam amalgam

"...wanna try it with me?"

Sure!

"Hey, come and look at this." She peers into her telescope and swivels the barrel thirty degrees toward the northern sky. Having already settled into a comfortable spot on the Shin Lab couch, getting up is easier said than done. But Ms Mandy Calhoun insists.

"Coming, coming," you mutter, dropping off your fresh brew beside your computer. Seems your late-night fix will have to wait.

Mandy smiles at you and kicks the wall, wheeling away from the viewing station in her office chair. "Look, look," she commands, pointing at the telescope. A quick peek through the eye piece shows a series of white streaks moving across the night sky-- just one of the many astronomical phenomena reported by astronomers in recent weeks, including your own mentor, Dr Shin. Indeed, the sudden rash of "night lights" has produced a frenzy in both the media and the scientific world.

Your friend inches her chair closer, gazing up at you with those almost shockingly green peepers. "What do you think they are?" she asks. The night lights are apparently meteor showers, but have been happening so frequently and with such an irregularity that people have become more cautious about the typical explanations. Warnings of a coming Armageddon have graced more than a few national magazines, and no news program-- TV or radio-- is complete without semiweekly speculations of alien activity-- hostile or friendly. But such reminders don't impress the remarkably brainy blonde; in fact she scoffs at your feeble mentions of other people's assertions.

"I didn't ask what -they- think. What do -you- think?" With a soft creak Mandy rises from her seat and leans over the observation table. You struggle to keep your eyes above neck-level since her low-cut tank isn't doing you any favors right now (or is it?). Instead you look into her intense interrogator eyes while they scan your expression for answers. But even as you avert your gaze away from inappropriate places, still other features call for your attention: a full yellow mane, glowing skin, and pert pink lips that hang open just so, always waiting for the chance to flash a lovely smile. There are, of course, many things to be done with a mouth like that besides smiling...

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