I was angry. I looked over at Bennie and grimaced to let him know that she was okay physically. I saw Bennie was angry, too. He had come to like this ...oung girl who had lost so much and then had her hopes abused by these two evil men.He looked at George, "Why?" Tom said that we could capture all of you and take you in to the Penn's and they would make us leaders. It was Tom's idea. I hurt. I didn't mean anything. I was just following Tom."Bennie looked at him and said, "You will follow Tom. It. There were several diagrams that displayed the dials but there were also additional illustrations that seemed to show another spherical surface.There was a section about some sort of object that could be inserted into the perimeter. I took another look in the box and ran my hand over the velvet base. I felt something hard, lifted up the cover and pulled out a small bronze skeleton key. I had a look at the clock and found a tiny hole on the outside ring.As I inserted the key and gave it a ninety. Deviantart.com/trust-machines/Thanks to dkfenger, clancy688, MrSimple, Karantela, Icaria, and JAK forfeedback on earlier drafts.This story is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.----------The next day, after we got home from church and lunch (we usually ateout after church), I checked the news to see if anybody had learnedanything more about those machines. And there was almost nothing.None of the major news outlets were reporting. Saffie pulled herself back into Fenella for a hug and more kissing. Zann did the same to Jamila and there was a general move to surround them and kiss and caress them. They were lean and brown and even sexier than I remembered; a fraction taller than Zin, shorter than everyone else.“We brought some fabrics,” Jamila managed to say between kisses, and we all took the hint, left their bodies alone for the moment and moved over to the boxes. The band girls opened them and we transferred the.