I pressed for the lobby and it headed down, stopping once to let an older couple in. In the lobby was a lot of people and commotion, when I asked what... was happening, I was told by a rather chubby man who worked there, that there was a function on that had just finished. I felt slightly out of my depth quite quickly and decided that I might be better heading back to my room, if anything happened to me on the first night here, my dad would kill me and probably the my room off me. I turned to. ’Who the hell has he got in there?’She pondered who it could be, at the same time as trying to ignore the jealous feeling deep inside her. In an instant, she decided she absolutely had to know what was going on and plucked up the drunken courage to crack open the door and get a sneaky look.She silently and slowly turned the knob and eased the door open slightly. What she saw next made her draw in a sharp breath in surprise and shock. She could see her step-father side on, standing by the edge. They both caught each others eye and Helen made her way towards her possible new landlord. She had questions to ask about the security of living at his friends’ house. Giving up her bed-sit would mean she would become homeless if it all went wrong. ‘Get in, quick!’ Harry told her, nervously looking through his rear view mirror. As soon as she sat beside him and before she could fasten her seat belt, Harry put his food down on the accelerator and drove at speed down the road. Every few seconds. They pressed against the field barriers around the Federal Offensive Materials Bureau, blue flickers of energy playing across the crowd whenever they pushed just a little too hard. They shouted for freedom, for the ability to see what they wanted to see, hear what they wanted to hear, and feel what they wanted to feel. Some of the braver had earlier attempted to scream out curse words, only to find their throats constricting as the small metallic devices implanted into their temples took over.