In the days since Eloise had led him down those hidden stairs, Daniel had tried to find the lever or latch that turned each fireplace but couldn’t g...t any of them to open.As his eyes looked around the shadowy mantle, he caught some movement to the left on the stairs to the main level. Eloise stood there in one of her long flowing dresses. She smiled and beckoned to Daniel with her finger. Daniel rose from the couch and walked toward the stairs.“Where are you going, mister?” Julie watched him. She moved again, her hands traveling down. Taking one of her wrists in each of his hands he pinned them above her head. He touched the head to her again and she responded by trying to get around him once more. He stopped kissing her and looked down at her. Kayla opened her eyes and glanced up at him, a strained look to her features. She was trying her hardest now not to be turned on, not to respond, he could tell, but her body was betraying her. Her breathing was hampered and she fixed. He had been on the go and around people for the past month and a half. He had grown accustomed to conversation (something he had been certain he never would after years of silence in Denaya).He considered for a moment and then decided a walk around town would be just the tonic. He opened his door and saw his ever-present soldiers standing guard. One of them looked at him and asked if he required anything.“I thought I heard a noise,” Joseph lied. “It seems I was mistaken. Carry on, gentlemen.”He. Most of them looked like guys indrag. I was going to have to have the computer start making the guys goto beauty parlors and taught how to look the part. Some of the guyswere bad looking, and I mean really bad looking. I just could not standthat anymore. Yuck. It was good that all of the people that were sentout on these population overcrowded were always between 14 and 22. Theystill had a chance to change and look good if they tried, well almostexcept for guys like Carl. Carl was at.