And they were perfectly happy with that fact.At lunch they found their way to the table where the Program group had begun to gather. Sandra, Wilma, an... Melanie were there and then Dennis came over, followed by Tony and David.Cynthia looked at Melanie. "Well, I see you decided to brave it out, at least for another day." Yeah, I did. What the hell. This still ain't no freakin' fun, and I don't know why I'm bothering to stay with it—but nothing bad's happened, thank God, so we'll see. And no one. You have a lot happening here, but I’ll rest better knowing the two of you are in charge.”John and Sioux didn’t have to say a word because their face said it all. They no longer questioned their worth, or their place in this new world, and that lifted their spirits and elevated their confidence.“Don’t worry, Grant; we’ll make sure things are covered here. Now, let’s go eat and get crew assignments put in place.”“I’ll be there in a few minutes, but I need to visit the prisoners for a few minutes. There were no smiles on any face and I saw the Gestapo “watchers” taking down the plate of any car that stopped outside the Embassy and decided it would be best for me to pretend to be a tourist and not there on business at all.I noticed several of the workers in the Embassy were wearing the required “yellow stars” and I had this sudden feeling that they were all “dead men walking” just waiting to be rounded up and shipped east for labor or re-education or something a lot more sinister.A young. But…she could also unleash him, and liberate a love that would make Antony and Cleopatra look like Beavis and Butthead. ‘Everything has an emotional impact,’ she said finally. ‘And now it’s almost dark, and that has an emotional charge as well.’ ‘How?’ he said. His face was half-silhouette now, lit only by the small lamp in the corner of the room. But he was leaning toward her, interested. She drew a breath. ‘Velvet darkness,’ she said, making her voice smooth and mysterious. ‘Midnight plush..