Carmen parked the car and turned to the two men as Laverne ushered them out."I hope you don't mind, but we already have a slave inside who will witnes... your discipline and enjoy the torture of watching you service us to satisfaction; you will then be trussed the way he is, and we will then have a little game we'll all enjoy. It's too bad if you do mind, because that's what is going to happen." Neither male was in the least way bothered about the extra eyes, the added humiliation was welcome,. Instantly, eight beams of Magic fire erupted from my fingers and incinerated the men facing me in the corridor. It was obvious that James Knox had not been killed, and he or someone had sent them after me.Having taken care of business here for now, I recast my wards in an expanded size using a spell that was air tight, since I didn't know what the air in the corridor below me was like. Looking around then, I marked my location before casting the transfer spell again and disappeared from this. " He paused. "So does this mean you're speaking to me again?"Amanda hesitated. "I'm sorry if it seemed like I was ignoring you," she said in a low voice. "I just didn't know what to say to you."Lanno walked up to her. "I just want to know if you think I did something wrong. If I slighted you somehow."Amanda was a bit nonplussed by the question. "Um, no, you didn't." So why did you give me the cold shoulder for so long?"Amanda sighed. "I don't know. But you didn't help matters, you know. You. .. As part of the community’s deal, I’m expected to spend some time working with one of the businesses. Since Derek was immediately assimilated into 3Sigma Robotics I decided that’s what I should do.It really does interest me. Dad says, no, Dad said I had a tomboy streak in me. I liked Legos and Kinex a lot more than I did dolls. I liked helping Dad work on things – the mower, small appliances, the cars, because I wanted to KNOW. In the robotics lab, I enter into a world of people who know a.