"They left us lying on the floor hooked together for several hours.Jack finally undid the padlocks so we could get up off the floor. Heasked Mary, "D...id you enjoy your shared experience bitch?" She wascrying but managed to tell him what he wanted to hear when she replied,"Yes sir." He told her to bend over and spread her cheeks. She obeyedand he smiled and said, "Tom was right, you do have a rosebud now. Youtwo bitches can put lipstick on each other's rosebuds." He giggled athis own. The sad sound continued.Charlene made her decision. She gripped the door knob, turned it, pushed the door inward, saw her mother.Liz stood with her back to the door, facing the big dresser and the mirror above it. She stood there, unmoving except for the shuddering and sagging of her shoulders as she sobbed. She stood there, naked as a jaybird.Charlene pulled up short, unnerved. "Mom?"Her mother seemed unaware of her presence, staring at her own voluptuously nude reflection through puffy,. The creature was capable of preventing any form of psionic scan on itself as well as being capable of blocking teleportation, and other psionic abilities.“Any ideas?” Roxanne asked as the rest of us studied the apparent structure from where the Seers were projecting it on the screen in the command tent.“Totally impervious to the type of scan we can do at a distance. We may do better if we can get closer,” Melanie stated for the Seer gestalt. “However, the fact that it appeared after our rescue. Does that sound about right, Mr. Renick?" He laughed. A deep, throaty laugh."You one of them mind readers that they show on the television? That's just about what I was figuring to get from you. How did you know who I was? It wasn't on that card that I gave you." I just figured that, as young as I look, the other salesman would have just ignored me. An owner would know not to judge a customer before first qualifying him. So, are we going to do some business?" How would you like to come and work.