I took a shower, got dressed in my knock about blue jeans and old baggy grey wool cardigan, as usual I went right to the kitchen and started the coffe...; Jessie wasn't far behind me and I turned around to see her in her underwear rummaging in the refrigerator from the cream. "Morning Jess, anything you need to do today, go to store or anything?" I said inquiring. "No, I just figured I'd hang out here with you and be lazy" answered Jessie, as she stretched, arching her back pushing her crotch. One male out in the hall as a goat and a female guard dressed as a nurse in the room with me. Same competency. If I’m right about this they’ll try to put pressure on me by grabbing Lee or taking me out.” They’ve all got wide eyes while they wonder why they’d be so desperate, whoever ’they’ are. “Also, I urgently need the names, recent photos, and addresses of all the power players in the state government, the Cabinet, the Department of Education, the people you’re trying to see, and those. We collect them -- at least for a while. If they meet our standards, that is, if the council of Masters approves, we offer them a one-year contract. During that time you will live at a villa in Italy where we have a recent vacancy. All your needs will be seen to during your stay. At the end of a year you will be paid the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, tax free and you will then be free to return to wherever you wish and resume the life you left." One hundred thousand dollars?" breathed. She stared at them for a minute without comprehending. Then she realized what they were. With a little gasp she dropped them onto the table.Martin bent to scoop them smoothly up. "Don't you want to look at them, Aunt Jacqui?" he asked. "I got home early from school so I could develop them before you got through at the library."With his thumb he shuffled through the stack of photographs. "Pretty good, I think, for a camera working off an automatic trip device. Good resolution, sharp focus and.