..and then to the guy after him.... and the one after him.... and on and on I went until every single professor sitting at the table had unloaded on m... face. There was even a couple of them who sat down in the middle of the session who I made sure to go back and take care of.One of the times I wound up working on the guy who was currently speaking to the crowd. It was so exciting listening to him trying to speak normal, like nothing out of the ordinary was going on, while I was down there. ”I nodded and stood, facing Artimas, “I may need your help. Do you think you can remain calm and not rush into anything?”He nodded and followed me back to the clearing. When he saw his daughter there was the sound of indrawn breath but that was all. Back at the inner circle his daughter had wide eyes as she saw her father and tears slowly made their way down her face, “father?”He nodded but remained outside the circle, “Elizabeth we will get you out, be patient.”Slowly he walked the circle. "Feel." Feels warm," she replied."Well -- something can feel warm to your skin but cool to your insides. You can sense water that's only a few degrees below body temperature as being cool. I think I'm going to dispense with the glycerin and give you a salt-and-soda enema." Why?" The cool water can be a bit cramping. No need to make it any more so than necessary. This solution is a bit hypertonic..." What does that mean?" It means the salt concentration is greater than in your bodily fluids.. ”“Paul Sumner, the DDO’s deputy?”I nodded. “Of course. Charles couldn’t go himself, could he? His absence would be noticed so Paul stepped up to the plate.”“So, Paul was sent to do what?”“To comfort and reassure Midas of his importance and to collect the data we’d been promised.”“Is that normal procedure for something like this?”I sighed at the question. For someone so high up in the Agency, Carl was asking some stupid questions. “What should we have said, Carl? ‘Sorry Midas, our man is too.