“Yes. I hear that sound now in my nightmares.”I felt Cindy nod.“It’s the nanites. They are keeping your brain operating ‘normally.’ Unfort...nately, for soldiers, for humans generally, we deal with some of the worst shit in our lives by forgetting it, or at least putting those memories in a room and locking the door. The nanites block some kind of neurotransmitter that allows that to happen. They haven’t found a way to reliably shut that function off when we don’t want it.”“And I’ll bet you’ve. The woman woke glaring but then stopped in confusion as she saw us.Cynthia had sat at the edge of the pentagram in front of the woman and I heard, “be patient and be quiet, we will get you out.”I walked around her with the mages. Unlike the spells around Elizabeth I could see the knot that held the spells and a loose end. More, the spells that ran through her were tied to the same knot. I stopped and looked at Artimas, “was Pendar really this sloppy? Not that I mind but I do not see any traps. When I went back to the kitchen, she is holding the bowl with strawberry cream in it. I said, that’s so fluffy and tasted some cream. She asked me, how’s it ??It is awesome dear. Then she started spreading the cream on the cake. I took some cream again and applied on her waist. She said, what are you doing ?? It is very tough to wash the sticky cream. I told her, it’s okay baby anyways we need a lubricant. She smiled and told me you’re an idiot.Then I tasted the cream on her waist while. Hurting hisfamily was never an option. Although he relished the idea of how theywould be doomed at his job without his help, no one was capable ofperforming his job as he had.The change came gradually; he felt movement in his limbs. Not truemovement, but a slight variation of the pressure. While the pressurenever lessened to where he could retrieve some kind of overall sensationof his body, it increased randomly in what could be considered a massagingmotion. There was no pattern or rhythm.