Opal had to shout to be heard over the crackle of the lightning, even though she’d moved to stand next to me.“It will only be a minute now.”The ...tesla coils synchronized, pounding the gate with round after round of lightning. The door began to glow.“Can it handle that?”“Tungsten.” She explained. I nodded in understanding.With the sound of cracking glass, the gate resolved itself to show a clearing in a forest of dense ferns and trees unlike any that still existed.“I’ll be damned…”Opal grabbed my. ”He went to tie Kari up, but first he wired up theelectricity so that it was completely ready for her.Once again Jack picked Kari up. She was crying now,thick tears flowing down her face, onto her chest whichwas still in pain from the vicious slap appliedearlier. “Why this, Jack?” Kari asked in a tearful voice. “I’llbe better to you; I promise it will be more than yourwildest dreams.” Jack wasn’t impressed. “No you bitch; I’m going to. I've also observed that Heather is, more or less, the 'boss' and you all look to her for that leadership, but Heather always defers that leadership role to Jan to set the pace once the music starts. Jan, you're excellent at doing that and you keep us all on track." That said," he noted with a smirk, "I like to screw around a little because it keeps the fun in what we're doing. I've impressed on you that we should just tick off the tunes and be professional in all that we do, but we still have. I've never been a physically ormentally strong person. I'm very easily intimidated. And there I was ina tiny plaid mini and white pump sandals about to mince my way passed agroup of young black street-toughs. Even in broad daylight, even inguy-clothes, I'd have been terrified...Lise sat behind the wheel of our?sorry, her?Acura legend.I pleaded: "Please, do I really have to do this?"My beautiful wife looked so composed and cool. She had her short blondehair slicked back tonight. She was wearing.