For Lilian and the Indigos - Above Top Secret

Lee interjected, “Anyone up for a game – cards or maybe a video game?”
“Aw, honey,” Cara responded, “it’s been a very long day for me. I don’t know about Kid
and Tim, but I need to sleep.” With this comment she issued a long yawn and stretch.
Lee looked at Tim and The Kid hopefully. The Kid looked apologetic as he shook his
head without comment, and Tim responded with, “Sorry, my man. I have a meeting
scheduled early in the morning and should be following Cara to bed.”
“Maybe we can schedule a game night soon,” I suggested. “I would love to try out that
new RPG by the Ghost Writers…what’s it called…?”
“Oh, you mean Kings of the Old World?” The Kid asked.
“That’s the one!” I confirmed.
“Sure,” Cara said, bringing up her Calendar. We all looked at what she had available,
consulting our own in the process. “Oh, how about here?” she asked, pointing to a date a
couple of weeks in the future. “I have my spa treatment in the morning, but all afternoon
is clear and I can stay late – nothing to do the next morning.”
As luck would have it, we all had the time free except The Kid. “Well, next time,” he
said softly with a petulant smile. “You guys have fun then.”
We gathered ourselves up and headed towards the J.D. With hugs and goodbyes, the
gang went through the shimmering curtain, one by one, and then Lee and I were alone
again.
“It is getting late,” he said, turning to me to put his arms around my waist. “Shall we turn
in?”
I nodded, stroking his cheek with my hand but saying nothing out loud. We made our
way towards the bedroom, stopping briefly to have our teeth cleaned by the bathroom
’bottie and to cast off our clothes, which were collected by another ’bottie to be taken and
returned to the domain of probability in the wardie.
Lee and I slid into the soft indulgence of the silk sheets, wrapping ourselves in one
another, to make love and then to sleep, with memories of the brilliant dance of light in
the skies over San Francisco Bay weaving in and out of our heads.