There was a snicking noise, and Tim tried to guess the familiar sound. He knew when a cool metal object pressed against his leg and the man began cutt...ng his pants off, starting at the cuff near his stretched ankle. His captor moved his scissors quickly, with ease, and he had slice up one side of Tims jeans with his sharp scissors before Tim had time to even register the cool breeze against his bare leg. The same treatment was given to the other side, and soon his new jeans were in two pieces.. Then we'd cushion the drone's landing by magnetic repulsion.I watched as the drone took off from the other end of the airplane hangar we were using as a lab. It flew in smoothly and slowed as it got close to the mag floor. It came in for a landing and its pilot who was flying the drone from a control panel on the other end of the building, stopped its engines and turned on the emitters. The drone didn't actually touch down on the floor which was good and proved that the tech worked. But the. I went to the gallery I had created for my wife’s session with Bob and Sally. I hadn’t picked up on it when I had up-loaded the photos. I remembered that when we were on our European vacations the pictures we took each day were naturally sequential. Meaning, whatever we took pictures of in the morning came first and whatever we took pictures of in the evening came last. This insignificant, obvious fact made my mind click on an odd observation on the pictures. Earlier I was too shocked to. Gideon pressed a button and a digital display sprang open on the side of the camcorder. He tapped a finger twice over the makeshift ashtray while blowing a long string of smoke out of the side of his mouth. “What kind of equipment?” Mara knew that Gideon was toying with her, making her work for it before ultimately shutting her down. He doesn’t give a shit about the equipment, she thought. Even so, she was relieved to be on familiar ground for the moment. “Well… I’d need three pro-grade.