"Tuck nodded.A while later they set up a mortar tube and Tuck handed Gamelin an old tunic top from his pack. "Go up to that hill, find a pole and hang...the shirt from it. Stuff it with grass, then come back."Gamelin and Vosper swung onto their horses and galloped off. As they did, Tanda, Tazi and Hestius returned."Well, anything to report?" Tuck asked Tanda."Nothing, not even dust," Tanda told him. "We went all the way to the edge of the Barrier and looked out. We could see nothing. Your trooper. Their captain’s eyes grow wide, but both Lori and Becky behave as if they aren’t nearly as nude as they are and like nothing has taken place between the three of them.“I could use something to eat,” Becky grumbles as they through the lounge area toward the mess. “Oh, hey Mom,” she says when she sees her mother.“What have you been doing?” Kendall asks, her voice rising slightly in both pitch and volume.“Not a whole lot,” Lori answers quickly.“But you two are half naked!” Kendall exclaims. “And. Every time he did that, until Ilost myself again in waves of pleasures. I had never ever felt so good,and that was the plan all along. I felt so good because of him, becauseof what he did to me, and because he could do that, I sold my soul tohim in this very moment, and he knew it. It was a devious piece ofmindgame. I had been made a captive, had been stripped of everythingthat I had been, had even been expelled from my body in an act ofhostile takeover and was being raped, but because he made. Then he went back to the living room, programmed his hard drive player to play Mozart symphonies, opened a bottle of Shiraz and settled to sort out his thoughts and feelings.It crossed his mind briefly that when he wanted to think, he went to Mozart and Beethoven, a far cry from what he wrote. As the music began to play, he set himself to think things through carefully and positively. There had been too much negativity he realised; he would not dwell on those times.He left it at that, only.