This is only temporary, I'm sure." Don't get your panties in a bunch. We need to do your makeup now." Do we have to? Can't I get away without it?" N...o," she said, with a grin. "Maybe this isn't so bad. Maybe you'lllearn something about life on the other side. Sit down and watch." Imust've looked nauseous. "Oh, relax, you baby. It'll be simple. It'snot like we're going to a formal affair or anything." She handed me apencil. "This is eyeliner. Pull down your right eyelid and run. "Ensign Prescott, take this man to Rogers and Schmidt. He'll need to see them."The ensign gave me a dirty look, but as I walked up he led me around a shattered bulkhead to a small makeshift shelter. Inside there were two men, both gravely injured."Damn!" I whispered as I looked at the extent of the injuries. One man had a huge gash down his left side. It was heavily bandaged, but the bleeding had only been slowed, not stopped. The other man had clearly taken a heavy blow to the back of the. Tennis court. Billiards room. Swimming pools. Spa. Yoga. Pilates. Stores. Personal shoppers. Gyms. Personal trainers. Art auctions, probably personal Egyptian fan-wavers.I sniffed. Decent, but hardly up to Winter Jennings standards.I woke up on board The Globe at 5 AM. Valetta is in the Central European Time Zone. I know this because of Walker-research. He can be a bit anal, but he’s my anal.I felt great. Rested, alert, hungry.The interior designer had been carefully neutral. The walls and. “This is a long-range hunting and sniping rifle. Even though it has a magazine it only fires one shot at a time and has to be reloaded using the bolt.”Looking through the scope I found the piece of wood I’d put on top of a boulder three quarters of a mile away. I handed all four of them a monocular each and then pointed to the boulder and asked them if they could see the piece of wood on top. When they all found it, I told them to keep watching it and then lay down in a classic prone position.I.