I remained thoughtfully silent. There were so many questions and Ididn't want to jump the gun. Judith was not to be deterred however. Sherealised my t...ctful silence belied a dozen questions rumbling around inmy head."So what do you think?" It's not up to me. It's their choice. I suppose it was bathing thetwins that set all this off." You're not following me are you," accused Judith."What's there to follow?" "They're working girls. They're afraid it'll affect the team'sperformance when they're. Not only can you feel it and taste it, but in your mind’s eye you can see the way the chocolate moves as my words describe it in more and more detail. It is so real and satisfying to you, that the pleasure which you normally feel when you have chocolate is quickly overwhelming your senses now. You are focusing completely on the words your mind reads, and you are unable to think now as my words are becoming your thoughts. You don’t care anymore because the pleasure is increasing the more. .. equipment. The harder she tried to focus on the shimmering things, the more uneasy she felt. “It feels as if all this is ... working, or something, but the Ship is just sitting still, isn’t it?”“She, not it,” Bill corrected. “I suppose you could say she’s sitting still, but then again, she isn’t actually in contact with the ground; she’s hovering just above it. She’s bound to be very heavy, so I suppose she wouldn’t want to leave deep gouges in the outdoor range. Crap, I don’t know for. And the statues.At first glance, they looked like waxworks from some old museum, but on closer examination it was possible to see that the simulated flesh on the figures was soft, smooth rubber. They were so realistic that Maureen had reached out and touched the arm of one of them when her aunt had first shown them to her.“Don’t touch,” the old lady had snapped, rapping her cane on the hardwood floor to emphasize her words. “Never touch the replicas!”There were four of them. One was the image.