. MY... GAWD.* Gidget slumped in her chair, exhausted. It had taken an hour just to calm a justifiably hysterical Rose, then another hour to "Tell the...Tale". Finally, a third hour to convince her to stay in the background while she worked with her father. Now all she had to do was try to get some sleep before she tried to convince her father that the 56 year old woman talking to him was his sixteen year old daughter!July 13, 2008, 4:30pmAs he attempted to download the Map Quest program into the. As it rolled past the streetlights, each shone its light beam in through the small window on the side of the van, lighting up Olivia's blank expression with a slow motion strobe effect. After a few minutes the van stopped at the loading dock. A few more minutes and Olivia could hear voices on the other side of the van door. The door opened quickly and Olivia could see two female guards. "Step out of the van please." Olivia got up and slowly walked to the back of the van, the chains from the leg. Later they had a very pleasant dinner, and he found that Elizabeth was very pleasant and interesting company. She had a good command of English although he insisted that they spoke German, as he needed to bring his German up to speed. She kept the conversation on a very light level, and during the next week they became almost inseparable. They had most of their meals together, and they walked and talked for hours in the adjoining forests and mountains. Very often ending up in a nearby Gasthaus. I was closer to the window than I'd previously been, and Inoticed the entire unit was vibrating at an incredible pace. The rapid-fire tremors disturbed the air around the window and caused the hair on myarms and the back of my neck to stand on end."The cable came loose again," I called back to Jackson. "One sec."I reached down with one hand toward the sparking cable as I placed thepalm of my other hand on the glass surface before me. Just touching thething made my whole body tremble. Like I was.