"Stop him!" Dane called. He was sorry that he asked Zax if there were Earth's Cores in the rock. Because of him, he thought, Zax went crazy and broke ...wo of his own fingers, maybe more. "Help me stop him!" Dane grab Zax by the shoulders and Merly helped him. "Zax! Your hand, Zax! Stop struggling!" The two screamed at him.Zushi and Weysey also tried to block Zax from the front, but the look in his eyes was strange, as if he did not see or hear them. To just two of them Zax was too strong to. She didn't see or feel him until she had turned the key in the lock and his hand came around her face to cover her mouth to stop her screaming and then he pushed them both through her open door and into her hallway beyond."Scream and you're dead," he snarled holding his knife to her neck."P-please," she begged, but her voice caught in her throat.With his knife still pressed against her throat he forced her to climb the stairs and into her own bedroom. With a powerful shove he pushed her onto. I waited a while to calm down and then tried again, softly touchingmyself. Again, the excitement grew, welling up from the heat in mybreasts and loins, but it wasn't as intense as before. My hand began tocramp up again and so I stopped, feeling frustrated and weighed downwith a different kind of tension.Rolling off the bed, I went to have a shower. Now the first excitementwas over I couldn't help notice the mundane sensations of this new body.My breathing was out of kilter, my vision was. " He was invalided out after just fourteen months when he lost his leg in the Middle East years ago," I retorted hotly, "otherwise maybe he would. But I'll ask you this: when did you last see anyone higher than a major or maybe a lieutenant colonel anywhere near the front line? No," I said, rapidly calming down again. "We need to see front line reports. Before they've been massaged and interpreted for the top brass. It could even be useful to talk to people who have just got back from the front.