I seem to have that effect on people. Comes from the way I interact with others. I just sort of come into a place and try to take over," he responded ...ith another grin.I found myself liking this man. Soon he was settled with a bourbon, and I was settled at a desk with a reader.I was listening and looking at intelligence captures, and feeling sick to my stomach.It wasn't just my government that wanted what I had. Mara's corporate employers were busy gearing up for litigation, in case outright. Kogo, Lisle and Hayden all gathered around me as I stepped onto thefloor of the front room. I could feel them gaze at me. There eyes werelike probing laser scanners moving along the gracefully curving contoursof that body I inhabited. The lower centers of their brains weresending their bodies signals. Signals that were hard to ignore. Signalsthat told them that their eyes were looking at a female. A female thatpossessed the physical characteristics of a highly valuable mate. Thisall was. . What happens if we don't?" asked CoryI gave them each a glass, and opened an old bottle and poured a drink ineach glass and told them to drink it.Cory looked at it and said that it was blue.Fiona said gross and refused to drink it.I waved my finger and suddenly lightening appeared in my little atticroom. Both children must have jumped a meter and drank the potion.Cory asked for more, and I said that too much could be bad at the momentFive minutes went and I told the children that they should. .. as if she knew just what to do, just how to deal with me. I was so angry ... hell, I'm still angry ... I just didn't think..." You weren't thinking about much back then," she interrupted me. "I guess I can understand that, considering what you were going through. I wondered what you were trying to accomplish with Madelaine but I guess I can see it." Sorry you invited me now?" I asked. It wasn't too late, I supposed. I was startled when I realized I was of two minds about it, though. Part of.