" Collins started."Do it!" Brian said. "We're going up." He pushed forward on his throttle and pulled back on the stick. The aircraft began to climb, ...treaking into the pink Martian sky, the hillsides and the valleys dwindling quickly below them, the altimeter blurring with altitude it rarely showed."Nothing yet," Matt said, terrified as he watched them pass through a thousand meters and continue upward. Even if they did manage to not get shot down they had just burned up a good portion of. Reiser's attentions and his seemingly odd treatment of me. At times he terrified me, like the evening before when he'd spoken of running away and showed me the auction house in the cellars of that club. Other times he seemed to delight in bringing me pleasure, with his words or touch. Emotionally, I was up and down constantly, and I found all of it very confusing."I picked up some things for you today," Mr. Reiser said. We were standing in one of the smaller bedrooms.There were four bedrooms in. She grabbed me and roughly pushed me into the back room before telling me to sit on a wooden chair. While she started to look through a rack of clothes, I began to pay more attention to how Jane looked. She was quite tall and pretty, with long hair tied back into a ponytail. She was wearing a white satin blouse and a tight knee length black skirt. I noticed the colour of her stockings were also black as were her high heel shoes. She noticed me looking at her and angrily pointed at my clothes.. .. ' She stopped as I raised my hand. I was about to say sure, whenever you like, stuff like that, when the click sounded again.'Hazel, I'm in my senior year, gotta lot of work myself. I mean, helpin' you play catch-up would be real nice, and I'm sure pleased someone pointed you my way, but I got so little time at the moment I'm not sure I can manage it. I'm sorry, but I gotta think about myself too. Time's getting' kinda short.' No harm in pointing out the obvious. Her shoulders slumped some,.