"And Cranston?" Yes?" Thanks. Thanks for ever'thang." Amazing," Cynthia muses."You see these aerial photographs?" Sure did," Nancy replies."And that c...eared rectangle is either about to become a garden or it's one big case of overkill on the pretence." I agree. Can it be that Buck has turned over a new leaf?"She looks at Nancy and Vanessa."Nah!" the three of them chorus. And laugh, briefly."And that's the girl, right?" Looks like. And right next to her is Cranston, pointing at something.". If I could get some help and the use ofsay a sixty inch plasma screen TV as a monitor, it could be done." Would it be easier if you had the monitor, the help, but only had tocheck specific periods of time?" Of course." Colonel Butler called down a few hours ago privately. He wants us towatch for small animals that might have gotten aboard. They have foundwhat might be traces of some kind of animal." What kind of traces?" Food missing, what he thinks might be footprints, that kind ofthing."Tao. Just what he liked. He waited till she crossed the dancefloor to meet up with her laughing friends, hugging and kissing her arrival before pushing a cocktail into her hand. She almost got lost between the beauties around her was it not for the sensual way that she moved. She wore a tiny designer black cocktail dress that ended maybe a hand width under her butt, with thin straps over her bare shoulders and hugging her breasts upwards to present her cleavage. Soft natural color makeup allowed her. Ever since I was little I had been fed stories about men seduced by these wonderful forest creatures and stripped of every ounce of life force. This dawned on me as I over the days felt increasingly tired. Even though I ate and slept there was something in me that never truly replenished. The energies that had made me able to endure hours of pleasure now felt like they seeped away with each day. Skuld explained this to me and called it “the starving”. Every nymph felt it from time to time..