?What do you think of the new room? We built this over the last year ourselves, didn’t trust it to a contractor.? ?I like it,? I said. ?Is th...s where you’re? doing the deed now?? ?The room was my idea,? said Jean. ?As you know, I never liked the risk of taking victims into the house, but it was getting to be to much trouble taking them somewhere else. So we just had a soundproofed room installed.? ?That way we can keep a girl for as long as we want without worrying about. There'll be others. You see to Ben. I think he got a fragment in his thigh," Osvaldo snapped, then he moved off, weapon still drawn.Sandy tied a small compression bandage she ripped from the hem of Ben's BDU blouse over the puncture. She was morosely certain it'd only be good enough to sop up the blood, until Ben could see a doctor and get whatever was in there out.Ben touched her chin lightly. "I'm OK, babe. Your face is a bit bloody too?"She responded more to the question in his voice than in. ..A few moments later, I opened my eyes and dropped the stone. Thesecond the stone slipped from my fingers, the entire world blurredaround me. "Oh my god, no way..." I thought as all around me thingsshifted around from my dining room table to somewhere completely new.At the same time, I realized I was blurring and shifting myself. Oh,if I had thought it would really work I probably would have played"better safe than sorry," for I was about to have an incredible lifechange.My clothes seemed. The work never ceased and Tristan looked thrilled at every second of it.A month has passed. The interview with Vanessa Rovencroft was quite revealing. He learned quite a bit about the newly opened ‘School’ for students ready to serve the newly developing Human Imperium. As per Vanessa’s words those that attended this school were to form the future of the federation and the universe itself.First few days were spent like at any new school for a new attendee. People were curious, but rarely.