Cade
then told him to also pack one to go.
"To go, sir?"
"Yup. It's going upstairs with me."
"Yes, sir. One more to the table and one to go."
"You got it. Thanks."
When the waiter had left, Mandi smilingly asked, "Why didn't Beth come down
to lunch with you?"
Digging into his food, Cade said, "She needed a nap. Why were you watching
us last night?"
Startling imperceptibly, Mandi thought, 'He DID know!' then she said, "When
you didn't come back to the room, I thought maybe you'd gotten into more
trouble."
Around some steak, Cade said, "Uh, huh. Glad I'm wearing boots, ma'am." He
cut another piece and said, "Got a question. Am I just processing mass into
energy?"
"Partly. You're being restructured, which requires quite a bit of both mass
and energy."
"So I could probably just drink a lot of water or eat a phone book and it
wouldn't matter a damn to the process?"
Mandi snickered and asked, "A phone book?"
"Bulk. Mass. Something to convert. It doesn't necessarily have to be food,
right? Just a steady supply of mass."
"I suppose so. Will you want gravy on your phone book?"
"Probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
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