This time I had loaded my Swift with expanders since the Tro never wore armor. They were three meters tall with six arms and six legs, the top was str...ight above the bottom. They also had six eyes, four in the front and two in the back. The huge mouth almost split the head in half with rows of teeth like an earth shark.We moved through the dense jungle carefully and froze ten kilometers after we started. Golith was choking and I could not see him but heard a silenced round from an assault. "Your manners are not quite up tospeed, Maria. And you are a bit too quiet in class. Collar, Maria - tenpercent more talkative in class, fifteen minutes of pain, level two."That collar was a scientific marvel - but used for strange purposes.At once I could feel it. Dorothy and my other two room-mates helped mechange my dress. I was too disoriented to do it myself.The pain ended just before next class. This was English. The pattern wasprecisely the same. Except that I contributed very much to. " "Yes..." "While we're waiting for Magatrix to put in anappearance, do you think that you're up for another go-around?" Mike tenderly inquired as she seductively slidunder the covers. "Well, while I'd like to tell you that I'm gung-ho togo again, the truth of the matter is, I'm not all that surethat I am. I mean, while I'd like to say, sure, no problem,and that my body's up for another go-around, I have to beperfectly honest with you and tell you that I'm not allthat sure that as it stands. Johnson was pushing as hard as he could to get to St. Louis before other shippers had gotten there and depressed the price of furs.Again, we made it, though we were not the first ones there. Capt. Johnson got a very good price for his furs, but the word was that this might be the last year for the high prices he was used to. Rumor had it that the bottom had fallen out of the European demand for furs, but the price had not fallen, yet. Nevertheless, the price was lower than Capt. Johnson had.