When I got into the store it was eight ten. I was late opening the store but I didn’t think anyone would notice. There weren’t that many people in...the mall but I knew the longer this took the greater the chances would be that I would be discovered. And so I put my plan into motion. The first thing to do was fix the remote to the vibrator. Using a small tool kit we had in the shop I popped off the panel on the remote control. It was a simple design. There was a slider dial to control the. "I'm going to need help getting this kid's face rebuilt." If, she thought to herself, he even makes it that far.+++ I was lost in dreams. Images that seemed to flash by faster than I could assimilate them. More like watching short films than dreaming, really. An image of my mother giving me a pretty pink satin dress for Easter Sunday. The sound of a truck horn very close as my mother screamed and threw her arm across me. Playing skip rope with my girlfriends in the summer sun. The images came. They showed their due respect for her beauty, boldness and market appeal. The TWA booking agents had negotiated a sweetheart deal with the tool manufacturer’s ad agency. The weeklong shoots would generate multiple streams of revenue. Her take was a substantial flat fee shared with TWA plus percentages of the sales to be solely hers. The mass market G- and M-rated bikini calendars were destined to grace garage and machine shop walls worldwide. The ‘behind the scenes’ infomercial videos were. Ziggurat, the most powerful of the group, was on the sofa, watching one of the girls, a blonde, out of the corner of his eye. His dark-skinned partner, Ebon, was sitting on a white leather recliner, watching the chocolate-skinned girl still playing the game. The third partner, known as Olorin, who’s power was second to Ziggurat’s, was sitting on a black leather recliner, patting the black hair of the Asian on his lap. Draconis was the weakest of the group; he could only handle one girl at a.