Our room was in one of the turret rooms, overlooking the front of the hall. It was old fashioned as the rest of the building was but with its own styl.... Everything creaked, the floors, the bed, even the loo!As it was our 1st wedding anniversary had dressed up and I'm glad we did as the rest of the place was well posh.Jayne had slipped on her nude holdup stockings and a long heavy nude coloured dress with leaves printed into the silk dress, and that was all. Her nipples stuck out nicely without. They were hoping that scans of living brains would give them further information."But they're questioning why we want to know so much," Singh complained. "I don't know how to explain it to them." Well, why do you?" she asked."Amanda, we're scientists, not engineers," protested Sviatoslavski. "We want to know because we want to know, not because we have some kind of infernal machine in mind. I mean, it's what we do, try to learn about things. Pure knowledge, just that. Maybe down the road. Now that we had our first pool of participants we temporarily switch off the profiles. We contacted Jeremy and put him on hold so to speak. Both of us were of course extremely nervous virtually the whole time leading up to meeting Richard, our first participant for coffee. When I was at work, Jane sent me a text saying that her mail order had arrived. I tried to coax out of her exactly what she had bought, but she insisted they would be a surprise and that I could see them in photos. I must. He looked like he might even cry."What's wrong?" Tina asked.He shrugged. "I just thought you'd like it."She rolled her eyes and smiled. "I do like it, Joey! That's so cool you have a gun... you just have to be careful, is all!" "There aren't any bullets," Joey said again."Even so," Tina replied.Joey nodded. "Okay," he said softly.Tina felt bad for the kid. He'd expected some other reaction from her, some reaction that would make him feel "cool" or something. She could tell just by looking at.