. mass of red-gold .. and his eyelashes were long dark and curly. Nancy skilfully blended natural tones, basically blushercolours into a layered eye...look and contoured cheeks. Her first thought of using "Instant Face Lifts" ,glue on tabs that could lift the skin, giving more contour to the cheekbones, and an uplift to the eye and brow, had been unnecessary. Lipstick was followed by gold gloss that picked up the gold tones in the hair colour. Nancy was pleased with her work. The. I was completelyhelpless and in likely a short amount of time that sick man who claimedto be a man of medicine would be returning to do who knows what kindunspeakable things to me.Regardless of his parting words, I desperately started screaming forhelp. * * * *"I suppose it was too much to hope for that he'd lead us right back tothem?" the voice asked over the com channel."We figured as much would happen," the man replied as he watched theMCO agent pilot his vehicle through the city streets. The room was awash in blood by the time it was done. We heard the sound of feet running down the halls, and when we stopped at a window we heard the sound of horses being ridden away from the Citadel at a brisk pace.We spent the rest of the time searching the rest of the building. Tyler and Jane would be with us one moment and then gone. We heard cries as men who were looking to do us harm died no doubt as they were found in their hiding places. We were exhausted by the time we had looked. You had almost forgotten about her completely when this snowy December night came along.Anna was standing in the doorway, white snow gathering on top of her strawberry blonde hair and her face was slightly paled from the cold. She was wearing a tight purple turtleneck sweater, but was otherwise unprepared for the weather. But it wasn't her appearance that confused you so much. By her feet were two large suitcases and a small handbag, also covered in snow. "Hey." She said simply, her smooth.