We leave tomorrow, and I want to have a nice time tonight," Mariel said.Before I could even say yes, no, or all right, she was gone. I finished up, an... made my way back to my apartments. Trayla met me at the door and smiled up at me."Hi, Paul. I am the doorman for this party. Mariel is in the main room with some of the other guests. You're almost the last! Really, as host you should have been here a long time ago!" She exclaimed rolling her eyes at me.I chuckled at her. She was a little minx,. You don't get to fill your bag with our gifts. I put my hands together over my head and said, please let me empty the bag for you; I opened it and dropped several small boxes down my back, to the floor between us. A very bright flashlight cast a glare of the boxes, clearly showing the labels all read to Janet from Santa. She took a couple of steps back and said, "I still have the gun in your back." She scooped up a box and opened it. Then she said, turn around. As I did, she put her arms around. Did it work? She opened the door and to her delight she saw three zoned out teenage boys staring at the spiral. She walked over to the remote, said "monkey, seven, feather" and turned off the tv. This combination of words needed to be spoken in order to shift the attention from the tv towards her. This was one of the subliminal messages and was supposed keep a person from being hypnotized accidently. If someone watched the video accidently, then for example the plumber that happened to be. " He made a decision, turned back to his jeep, and said, "We return to D.C. Form up." He secured the other end of the chain on my collar to the back of his jeep, and the men formed a box around me. He got into the jeep and told his driver to move out.He kept us at a fair clip, but nothing I couldn't handle. As we drove, he would occasionally look back at me, although I wasn't sure whether it was to make sure I wasn't trying anything, or for some other reason. We drove back to D.C. to a big.