I do or I did, before this last thing that happened, cared for you. You will have to earn back both my trust and then my love. But I will give you tha... chance; because our son has asked me too try. I do not want to go back to that mountain cave. There are too many painful reminders. I want a place with a meadow near that I can walk to and I can grow a garden and maybe have a few animals that are not scared of you. I want you to swear to me that you will never again hurt me or put me in a pit or. To serve. To obey. Toworship."Rosie turned down the sound for a moment, to tell me that I was safe,that Maria was going to help me, and that I was doing what she wanted meto do. "I have a present for you," she whispered. Before I could eventhink to be dismayed - her last presents had been somewhat unwelcome -she shimmied her panties from under her robe. "I know how you likethese," she breathed, before placing them over my face. "I've beenwearing them all day, and I want you to have a little. It was obvious that Thomas had damn near perfected his camouflage since he got out. "Alright Mary see if you can get a location on either of them, we need to find Thomas as soon as we can. I have a feeling that we aren't the only ones who is looking for him right now." Searching now, I have the first man on a return trip to the company from a near deep space run. The other appears to be not far from where you originally were found by Shelby." Mary informed Derrick."Bring up all information you. A black gash showed where the weapon on the FAD had been fired through the grove of trees that hid the entrance.One FAD had collapsed onto its side. Where Dothan had opened the door and climbed in, all of the surrounding metal was now broken stone. The other FAD had spreading splotches of stone on it where the stealth weapon had taken hold, turning metal into stone.Jorie held his arms across his chest and shivered violently. His mind was doing something strange as he sensed a wide void that was.