. and that smell! I decided that I had tolook into it... So grabbing a fork, I went to his partitions and rippedthe thing open... and stared. Inside h...e was standing before this vat...that was glowing... with this... liquid flame that slowly began toform... then fade..."THE ATMOSPHERES CHANGED... but..."He turned round and saw me..."YOU! SO NOW YOU KNOW! The time for lies is past! Know you my name isOCCULTUS, he who is destined to be master of this feeble planetMUWAHHAHAHAHAHA!"I fell back in. She made me realize how much I need to serve her." Her eyesstared at Lester with the same expression that he had seen in thembefore. One that bordered on worship."Oh my..." Lester gasped, taking a deep breath as he stared at Rachael.He couldn't help feeling sorry for her, having her mind messed with likethat. It just wasn't right.Then Rachael quietly told him, "She called it a neural impressor..."Somehow Lester knew that she meant the thing in the lab that lookedsomething like an electric. He had been shot by a posse member before the Rangers got to him. Four down and four to go.Ezra and Sean drew back away from the river to discuss their attack on the other side of the road. They decided to swing around to the end of the skirmish line and work their way back toward the road, since this had worked so well on the first part of their attack.They pulled back another 150 feet and moved through the brush to the end of the firing line. The found the first man in line and used the same. From my lightened blonde shoulder length hair, tomy sculpted eyebrows, all the way to my pierced ears, there was nothingbut a young pretty girl. I almost pulled out my earrings but realizedthat wouldn't suddenly make me any less feminine. Then I realized that Ikind of kind of liked the way I looked with them. Finally, I shookmyself and headed to my bedroom figuring I could do this self-reflectingtomorrow. As I pulled up my covers and turned off the light my minddrifted back to that dance and.