I couldn't wait to get back to my dorm and open it. I opened the box and felt a jump in my chest as I inhaled the intoxicating scent of Alena's perfum.... A small note written in sexy female longhand sat atop a pillowy bed of neatly folded red tissue paper. It read: *****,Your Aunt Claudia asked me to send you some things she thought you might need for school. I'm sure you'll find them useful but I don't think she was thorough enough so I added a few items. Enjoy!AlenaP.S. Call me if you are. The style wasn't what I would have chosen but the salesman and Gran seemed to be agreeing, but then some salesmen will agree with anything to make a sale.Instead of going to my usual fast-food outlet we went to a restaurant where we had to wait ages between courses and listen to all the chatter of the predominantly women customers around us. "Get used to this and them, they are the women who you will be mixing with, so get yourself comfortable being among them. If you don't know it they all. A certain dread that it would soon be her turn. The last 24 hours had been a nightmare. First, the handcuffs, then the humiliating removal of all her clothing, and the final shame of the brutal cavity search by the smiling female guard. The screams of the unknown prisoner had become shriller and more distinct in intensity."Whack!" Oh migawd! Stop! I'll do anything." The pattern was unmistakable and Olga's imagination fearfully filled in all the details. Olga was young and not entirely unpretty.. Behind her, the crystalspires of the palace rose above the buildings. Lit from within and without,they formed gleaming towers reaching up the heavens, refracting a rainbow overthe dark city. In those towers, Jem was probably breaking into Council filesand Jak was no doubt reading those same files unwillingly, preparing for tomorrow'smeeting. Jerrin would probably be putting Helry to bed for the third time thatnight, trying to convince him to stay there until morning. Her family, contentand.