I gave her a strict time limit today, and she did fine.”“Did she? You won’t know until you talk to her and find out how she feels.”“You tell...me, if you’re so smart!”I chuckled, “I’m not, but I saw her eyes. And they truly are a window to the soul.”“And your assessment?”“Something is still missing,” I said. “There was a bit of life, but mostly her eyes were almost vacant.”“A side effect of her medication. Mood-altering drugs do exactly that — alter moods. My goal now that she seems to have come. Where was Dubois even taking them? He seemed confident, but they didn’t know anything about this planet yet.“Do you have some destination in mind, Dubois?” Sousa asked, beating Reid to the punch as he clambered over a large root from one of the pale trees.“When we were circling I thought I saw something in this direction, might be a settlement or some kind of village, if we can contact the local Krell population then we will ‘ave a good place to set up camp and start our investigations.”“You. He wanted to hurt that man more than anything else in his life. The man on the floor saw his look. The man growled, “Hey, nigger, I bet you’d love to fuck that little white boys’ ass.”If Leroy didn’t have his arm in a cast, he would have kicked the man in the face. As it was, he only replied, “You better buy some Vaseline before you get to prison. Talk like that will have a line of niggers waiting for their turn at your ass.”John smiled at Leroy and gave him a thumbs up sign. He saw how angry. His grip wasn’t strong enough on the leash to hold her.As she reached the door to her office it ripped free from his hand.“Stop, Deidre!” her Master shouted. She knew she should obey him, but being the president was more important than being his slave. He could punish her later.If her son would even allow that.Her bare feet smacked on the floor of the Institute’s hallway. People glanced at her, faces pale. She’d given the order to evacuate the facility. The Institute was done. They would.