"We do." Ohhhh, that's brutal, Mikey," the younger detective protested."Not as brutal as watching the sergeant turn into a little girl," Mikeexclaimed...as Dr. Sara Eurilyn stepped back from sealing the neckpiece tothe rest of the suit."You're ready for full activation, and the secondary components," Dr.Eurilyn told him now as she held out the small remote she now held out."Remember, do not exceed seven on the bonding level, or there is thepossibility that the suit could become....ah, stuck.". Coming from me it would just be a complaint and those get you no where.Since it was just after 5PM and dinner was going to be much later, I lay back down and fell asleep. I was still dopey, when I awoke at seven. The cobwebs cleared finally around eight. By the time the call came from Lamar, I was pretty much back in the game."Meet us in the lobby in ten minutes," Lamar said to me."Right," I replied. Lamar was about to get a surprised. Unlike most women I would be a few minutes early. I was. . medicine. So this is me trying to find some." "Medicine?" Craig asked skeptically. "Uh, yeah..." Courtney said, grinning coyly at him. "Okay... Here's Courtney Willis getting medicine for an author." The monitors cut away to a scene from her movie where a different version of herself, much more timid and flustered, approached a group of black men on a street corner, and attempted to buy marijuana. The men gave her a hard time and she's completely awkward and out of her element. The. "It's insane," I whimper. "It's gone and crazy and nothing's right and I can't handle this and..." I gag, huff, make small noises, and curl inward onto myself. And then, before I can collapse, Penelope grabs me. She leans closer still and sucks my lower lip inside her mouth, gently teasing my shaking flesh with her hopelessly soft hands. Suddenly, she pulls back, flicking her raven hair behind her shoulder and exposing her blemished neck. She smiles, revealing a mouth full of rotting.