I waswatching Diana, slim and sexy in her little blackdress, when an impossibly bright flash of lightningdragged my eyes to the big windows. Bang. Al... thelights went out. Ladies who did not like blackouts, and that means mostof them, screamed and moaned. My brain, however, wasfaster than a lightning bolt and I moved quickly anddirectly towards the point where Diana had beenstanding. I groped for and found her hand in the chaosand pulled her clear of the throng and into thecorridor. I pressed. "How it appeared to you does not matter to me." Athani answered. "I was just as scared as you were Jalersi, even more so because I was the one next to this creature." She held out the data pad to her. "I do not have some previously unrecorded ability sister. Those creatures make my blood go cold just as they do yours. That is what you can tell our father." And if I don't believe you?" Jalersi stated.Athani shrugged. "Then send me home." She said simply. "At least there I will not have to endure. It frightened her on many levels, and she knew that she had given her captor no reason to be kind to her.She was so involved in feeling sorry for herself, she failed to notice when Galen and Angel left the room. When she realized they were gone, she had no idea how long she'd been alone. She listened carefully to try and catch the small sounds people make when they move around in a home, and couldn't hear anything. Did they actually leave the apartment? Am I alone here, now?Somehow that thought. I’d briefly said hello to them and then made myself scarce. This wasn’t the first time I’d seen Misty and my daughter Penny in their ‘barely-there’ bikinis. I wondered how Doug was handling the excess of exposed flesh. He seemed immune to the effects. I had to admit that he was no slouch in the good looks department; I could tell the girls liked him.As I watched, I was pleased that this diversion was occurring so publicly in our yard. Our next-door neighbor was even riding around his yard on.