That was a small part of what I had to endure and this is just so different, so much better. My tears are tears of joy.’ I held her to me and made a...propriate consoling noises until she stopped crying. ‘You don’t have to tell me about it if you don’t want to, but it may help to get it out in the open. I get the feeling that you haven’t been able to talk to anyone about it.’ ‘Oh I’ve talked about it, I’ve talked to psychologists and counsellors who nodded sagely and told me all of the same. Nickolai threatened her with the ultimate fear of his skinning her after he was finished to put her on the wall for his customers to admire his work. She knew he had several of the scary things and she wondered how old they were and who the people were who had given their life for the sake of his art. It was almost impossible to tell if they were male or female since they were mostly of the back and shoulders and sometime part of the hips and cheeks but without any gender identification. If she. They were with a crowd of people and didn’t notice us. There were several other couples around and I quickly began attracting a little attention. It wasn’t that bad but I looked out at the beach and there are fewer people there. Since it’s a larger area I opted for the beach.We went out through the gate and crossed over the wooden walkway over the dunes and onto the wide beach. The hotel has chairs set out for their guests. There’s a small snack shack that will soon be open for drinks and. This would be, as they'd long planned, mostly soil along with a few basic horticultural specimens. The massive bays of the mothership would have to be conditioned into a reasonable approximation of Eden's surface before they'd be ready to accept animals of any sort.Paulssen and Watesi had been pressed into service as operators of the massive earthmoving equipment the second shuttle had brought down to them, and much of the loading was by direct transfer into the shuttle. The crew of Edenites,.