‘Why can’t I chew it?’ she whined in his head. ‘I like tic-tacs!’‘Because, silly, the smell on your breath will give it away!’ Jake expl...ained in her head. ‘So swallow!’‘I already did! Do you really believe I couldn’t figure that out?’ Béla laughed in his mind. ‘That’s a neat idea about training my body not to heal until I want it to, though.’‘Glad you like it, ‘ Jake replied in her head. ‘The ‘drug’ should start kicking in anytime, now.’Béla visibly relaxed, then smiled. She dreamily turned her. Otherwise there would have been a repeat of the same embarrassing incident of the previous week, when Betty Brant, the mild-mannered secretary to newspaper editor J Jonah Jameson, had broken a table in half with one blow. Now it was her turn to calm him down."Peter, take it easy," she urged under her breath. "I only agreed to talk about this because you promised to be rational. Please, calm down." Calm down?" Peter almost shouted, then lowered his voice. "How am I supposed to calm down, Betty?. If she stayed she would end up a gopher and lackey for the group. That's not what she wants." That's very wise of her." said Krinan. "She needs to get out and put what she's learned into action." Oh, she will," said Dahra. "She's been given an ipse scholarship by the geology college." You're kidding!" No. The college decided that after the find is made public, Lissa will be famous, and every college on the planet will be offering her scholarships. They beat everyone else to it."Besides," said. Slowly the population of many of the world’s democracies began to demand enforcement of laws on the books. Vigilante committees were formed as were political action committees. Corrupt public officials were removed. Criminals were captured, prosecuted and incarcerated. In countries where the death sentence still existed violent criminals were put to death in increasing numbers. As corruption and dishonesty declined the standard of living improved in many countries simply because more money.