..." Oooo...nice combination!" she giggled. "Wonder which one I should use on you first...?" Surprise me..."The tension was thick. The crotch of my je...ns was tight and uncomfortable. Something was going to happen - soon!"Surprise..." she grinned pulling hand-cuffs from her utility belt. I grinned too."Let's go inside." I said holding the door.She stopped me in the living room and jangled the cuffs in my face."You sure you wanna do this?" she asked, "I can get kinda wild..."I paused."I think I. A toucan cawed at us. Aubrey cawed back.“Zoos are weird,” she said, dodging a swarm of kids plodding toward us.“What do you mean?” I asked.“Like, we put a bunch of creatures that don’t belong here in cages so we can learn about them. We have the internet. And cameras. What can I learn at a zoo that I can’t learn anywhere else?”I pondered that for a moment. “The smells?”She laughed. “Well, I’m glad I know what toucans smell like. I don’t know how I could live with myself otherwise.”We exited the. . but her voice was never a whisper. It was simply of the sort of soft, even timbre that made one’s head snap up, made men used to receiving frantic, shouted orders realise that shutting up and paying attention to this woman was probably their best immediate course of action. The debrief wrapped up with merciful haste; the sky outside was the same dense and foggy dark as it had been this morning, as if day had never come. Everyone - well, almost everyone - was now eager to be home and warm. "Helen sniffed gently."Maybe. There is a hint of something that isn't me or Clare." Can you check that all the doors and windows are locked, please, Helen. I'm sure that someone got in. I don't know how." OK. If that will reassure you, I'll check."She was back in a couple of minutes."All doors and windows were and are locked, except for the communicating door to the barn and no one can get into that."That was true. After there had been a couple of attempts on my stock of antiques the main doors.