‘Is there anything I can do?’ Mitch asked. ‘No…thank you, Mitch,’ Melissa said. She turned and started for the house. A short while later, M...lissa sat at the kitchen table, mopping her face with a cool, damp cloth. ‘What on earth is wrong with me today?’ she thought. ‘I…I was leering at Mitch! Staring at his crotch! Look at the state I’ve got myself in! My God! I’m a grown woman, not some empty-headed teenager! I’m old enough to know better than to do something like that!’ She decided it might. I frowned as I realized nothing was coming to attack us. I felt disappointed. Even foolish. I stood there, waiting for danger to pounce on us, and it didn’t have the decency to oblige us with. That was so annoying.I relaxed and looked around. “Are we stuck in here?”“There’s a hole in the far wall,” Mother said, pointing to the dead end.I looked in that way and saw nothing. I didn’t realize how good her eyesight was, but she was a dragon. She probably needed to see well to hunt. I led my women. But I wasn’t bored.The quality and variety of stone that I was pulling up off the bottom ... yellow and orange quartzite boulders the size of my torso were undermined by the suction nozzle of the six inch Keene and rolled into the cavity ... until I realized that I could rig a crane and remove them. And learning how to operate the crane I find and restore to running condition would keep the doldrums away.I didn’t need much ... enough reach to keep whatever vehicle it was mounted on far enough. Voices? Or was her mind playing tricks? No, definitely voices. Hushed, quiet.... whispering. What was happening? Had Jane been kidnapped? Why didn`t anyone try to help? Karen? Carla, her roomates? What had happened to them?Almost as if they knew what she was thinking, the blindfold was removed from Jane`s eyes. The sight in fromt of her made her gasp with shock through her gag.Karen and Carla. She was in Karen`s room. There they stood, looking at her. They.... they had done this to her. But.