Of course, I couldn’t see anything but the tree line where the forest started, yet I knew what had happened there. Maybe the memory would fade with ...ime. Maybe. Neither of the men said a thing but instead they also took drinks from that bottle. When the bottle was offered to me I took another swig - a smaller one this time - and closed my eyes when the liquid found its way down to my stomach, which now seemed to be calming down.“We’ve heard that those monsters look really ugly and scary. I. A sharp blow to the stomach precluded resistance on Diana's part as they secured her hands in manacles at the ends of the bar. Then the two men grabbed her muscular legs and bent them back until the lower legs were a foot above and parallel to the floor. A sharp order to the translator sent him to help the two guards by tying a rope around her booted feet and then to the ends of the bar. In a moment, Diana hung from the ceiling, her muscular arms supporting her entire weight, with her legs tied. First, I spent forty-five minutes going over the exterior of Crystal's apartment block with a fine toothed comb, looking for -- and not finding -- surveillance cameras. There were a couple, but they were oriented on the parking lot, not the building. That was a lesson learned; I stayed the Hell out of the parking lot! Then I gathered up my goodies and settled in to wait. She got up at eight-thirty and wandered off out of sight of the slider, so I collected my goodies and made for her little. “Hello,” said Jessica when Tracy opened the door. “You remember me? I came looking for John.”“Yes,” replied a puzzled Tracy, “but I told you he was away for a long while. Was there something else?”“Hi, Tracy, I’m Susan. Like Jessica here, John and I go way back. It’s you we’ve come to see. We reckon you’re going to be here for months, and you won’t have any friends up here. So we wondered if you’d like to come out with us tonight? Meet some more friends. We were meeting at the Griffin, you know.