A shiver ran quickly down her spine. She felt a moment of doubt. She had never been captured before.Von Teuffel smacked her other cheek bringing its c...olor to the same red as the first. Then he spun her chair around and walked to the wall which had been behind her. He was dressed impeccably. His grey suit coat was unbuttoned showing his light blue shirt and black tie. He crossed his legs slightly as he leaned against the wall. Raven knew what he was seeing. She had worn her sheerest white silk. Though the ride from the showers had given his skin time to dry, he'd wetted his hair, and that set off the chill.The brunette wasted no time in taking charge. She took him by the hand and led him to the table. "Have a seat," she suggested, then pulled out a second chair for Gayle across from him.He sat down, and Gayle did the same. As if on cue, a tone sounded from Jeanie's phone. She smiled as she tapped to bring up the message, and surreptitiously winked to Jeremy."It's Brent," Jeanie told. She was just a bit nervous about how she would react to seeing an animal killed in cold blood but Hemingway had explained it in such poetic terms that she had succeeded in justifying it to herself. It certainly would not be more cruel than the methods used in the slaughter houses. From his descriptions she gathered that if they were really good bulls, the matador was in almost as much danger as the bull.Ann was snapped back to the present by the sudden blast of trumpets. The noise from the. The Edenites seemed as eager to learn as before, and the human scientists continued to press them for details about themselves and their planet. It took only a couple of days for the "field trips," as they had taken to calling their ventures away from the meadow, to be revived.To be sure, not all of the scientists were equally enthusiastic. A few were quite timid about visiting the surface and gave up their places in the rotation to other, bolder colleagues. But that ended when Toshimura, at.