Perhaps I even caught them exchanging smiles? No, I was fast getting drunk, so it was surely my imagination.Headlights in the night startled me as I a...ruptly realized that our parents could have changed their minds and come to check on us. Here we were, getting fucked up with some college kids, drinking wine. If not my folks, a ranger or even the camp host might notice us and start to wonder if we were of age. We’d been far too cavalier about the revelry.“Who the hell is that?” I blurted out,. "They pulled up some pillows, and lay down to watch the flames. Then they began to watch each other, finding warmth in each other's eyes.Hannah reached out and began to stroke Samantha's hair and cheeks. Samantha relaxed, totally focused on Hannah's fingers. Hannah traced Samantha's ears, then down the tendons of her neck. She caressed Samantha's shoulders, moving down her arms. She stopped at Samantha's hands, kissing each and sucking each finger. Then back to the shoulder, moving down the. . if anyone needs me, I?ll be out at the reception area,?and he got out of the hallway as quickly as he could.Julia scrubbed his head with the efficiency of a seasoned hairdresser.It both hurt and felt wonderful to have her nails scraping his scalp.When she?d finished at the sink, she had him stand and walk into anoffice where she?d set up her hair and makeup station.?I?m not really a hair dresser, but I know my way around a salon.Obviously, I?m not cutting anything that would interfere with. Helooked bruised and tired but he'd survived. Taser gave him a slightnod. As if to say, "Well done." and Scott relaxed. For the first timein over a week he felt relief.Then he saw blur of movement out of the corner of his eye and heard aclick. Scott felt the weight of a power dampening collar settle aroundhis neck and he stepped back gasping. "What the hell?" Cindy Snow, Carnifex, you are under arrest. Do not resist or we willhave to take extreme measures."***Chapter Six***The shadows.