“Mistress, would you care to make a bet that someone will notice?” I offered sweetly. I wanted to call her bluff and make a bet that someone would...realize we had on the suits.“Oh, I fully expect them to notice when they have a good look at you. You will smile and say that it is the rage in France and you just wish I’d let you paint it a little smaller next time,” Mom didn’t call my bluff.The beach was never policed, and there weren’t lots of people in Sebastian like there was in Fort Lauderdale. We had a row of chairs about fifty feet back from a small platform we’d set up, flanked by large screens showing performance data from the battery. Two of the NASA guys were administrators, and I wasn’t sure if the data would mean much to them. While I guess you had to send some of the guys who could sign off on purchases, this wasn’t going to be much to see except data output, and I was pretty sure they were going to be fairly bored.The other two, however, were engineers. One was a team lead. As cruel as any other death that day. I had no idea what to do during the chaos of the slaughter. Nor did I know what the other villagers were doing. Some fled. Some tried to help Flying Squirrel as he lay in the blood-soaked undergrowth. Others, like me, stood petrified in fear. I simply couldn’t comprehend what had happened. I knew I was doomed when more strangers appeared from the shadows in all directions. These figures were quite unlike the black-skinned men, although they were similarly. Then her daughters came in the kitchen as they got breakfast. Then after breakfast the husband went to work after kissing his wife on the lips and telling his three daughters goodbye as he went in his car and drove off. The two other daughters Melissa and Lisa catch the school bus as Laura had to drive her youngest daughter to school. Then as Laura finished cooking as her husband and daughters had a breakfast she went to to take a shower as the young daughter leah was already taking a shower.