Don’t you love those commissions and bonuses?”Georgia announced, “I think that everyone is in, so let’s do the morning tour and find out what ...as turned in this morning.”The sales secretaries were putting sales on the whiteboards and were already up to twenty-six with folders to be listed still in a pile. It looked like a good day would put this office over four hundred. The running number for total gross sales was way over two billion. A quick glance showed that the average sale price was. She told me that I was to giveher the tribute envelope and follow her. I was very nervous, but I of coursecomplied. She walked me to one of the closed doors and stopped. ??????????? ?You are inthe black room today,? she said in her sweet voice. ?Now listen closely. Whenyou enter the room, you will find two bags on the chair. One of them is emptyand the other one isn?t. You are to strip and put your close in the empty bag.You will then open the other bag. Inside you will find leather restraint. Amber was there but didn't notice me. In fact she lookeddejected that she wasn't voted homecoming queen. She chugged her soda.I walked over to that table and straight to Jess. I whispered in her ear."Wanna dance?"Amber looked at us. Then she turned back around and pulled out whatappeared to be a flask and poured it into her empty soda cup."You know I can't," Jess answered back. "People will see." No one will know," I whispered. "No one will care. I just danced with 2other girls. Nobody cared.. That was the plan, at least.Within five hundred meters of the hole, men began to yell in alarm. Shadowy dark figures popped out of the snow behind the men, holding thin metal wands in their ... flippers?! Men threw their weapons down while screaming and plunging their smoking mittens into the snow. Their weapons were so hot that rounds exploded inside their clips and magazines. Rifle breeches blew open. Not one shot was fired at the aliens who popped up to fire their energy beams. They moved.