Fin clicked the communicator to transmit to her partner. "Jackie, did you just hear what I heard?" The way it had just entered her head uninvited maki...ng her shiver.Jackie's expression was of shock her breathing steaming the inside of her face mask. She nodded slowly not wanting to attract the creature's attention. The alien presence was no longer inside her head as it appeared they chose when to communicate, and didn't or couldn't just continuously scope your mind." What other tricks are they. I will not bore the reader by repeating at length her experiences in a distant, untamed, primitive, savage and unforgiving land. She had accidentally locked herself out of her hotel room after a wild party in the bar some hours earlier, and been unlucky enough to have been spotted by a jealous colleague, who had then bribed a corrupt police captain to have her arrested and chained in the yard of his police station for over a month, naked and exposed to the cold of the night and the heat of the. After all the market was only open limited hours. But to know what to buy and sell he had to spend many, many hours pouring over company reports and evaluations of financial positions. When he had started this six years ago, he was so full of energy and determination that he never noticed the load. Now it was habit. It was a habit that had given him a net worth of over eight hundred thousand but had cost him. It had cost him elevated blood pressure. It had cost him vacations never taken, trips. Jobs weren't all that easy to find in the sleepy village of Maple Grove, and Laura had to keep up appearances. Laura had been wondering lately if maybe the image she had been forced by convention to project for the past few years was becoming her own self-image. She wasn't really as prim and proper as she let on. She loved a good fuck as much as, in fact more than, the average woman. She often found herself looking back at the wonderful hours she and her husband Tom had spent in the sack,.