Ben flashed her a daggered look, but she brushed it off easily and gave him a smug smile. Her eyes flickered onto Sue's face for an instant, gauging w...at had gone on before her entry; then she looked back at Ben, the smile widening."I take it you lost the battle, honey. Don't take it so hard; Don and I will see to it that you don't get left out. We're both pretty partial to that big black rod of yours."Ben was past the point of politeness. He faced her squarely, "You don't even know what a. ’ ‘Yeah,’ Annie said, walking in on the end of the conversation. ‘I was going to mention that to you myself. Besides, you said how they found a piece of ribbon outside? You remember my friend, Mitch, he’s a cop? He told me last night that all the girls were wearing the same type of red silk ribbon in their hair.’ Kaylee felt a chill creep through her system, a shiver of fear that she couldn’t shake off. ‘Maybe I should call that Officer James? See if he thinks I should worry. I mean, ever since. Using her wings in free fall was a completely different exercise than fighting against the centrifical motion of Demos' spin. This was like flying in the middle of Deimos, in the invisible center of the external forces which constantly acted upon her body. It was also a lot different than the new way of balancing she'd had to learn in order to fly in a straight line along an inverted surface.Plus, on Deimos, it was easy (and dangerous) to fall into an artificial gravity field. She'd had to. " Sam joking said."No really. Listen."The tone in her voice told Sam that she was serious. He listened, anddid hear something downstairs. He jumped up, found his pants, looked atthe clock, and it was seven- thirty. He headed out the bedroom door,and down the steps. He only made it four steps down the stairs, andstopped dead in his tracks. Vanessa's mom was standing at the bottom ofthe steps."Mrs. Martin!" Sam said in surprise."Sam!" Mrs. Martin said, also in surprise."Mom. What are you doing.