A scantily dressed woman wielding a scimitar came striding out of the bushes, waved her weapon around her head and wandered into a villa from which a ...errified occupant came running out.Paul found the research centre eerily silent when he finally got there. There were very few other people to be seen as he wandered along the corridors and peeked into each room. The centre wasn't totally empty. There were some scientists doing research, but there was none of the buzz of activity he'd observed. Jennifer and Courtney are thankful they started with just two classes, though I think they both plan to add at least one class second semester. Where are you planning to live when you all go down to IU?"Dinner was an intimate affair with just the four of us. The girls were all maintaining their distance until the ceremony. Dad's responsibility was to make sure the fire was burning well before the ritual started. Mom and Anna shooed me out of the kitchen to go get ready. I wasn't sure what that. " Don't make me sound bad, Alan!" she said. "I've listened to everybody talk about Cindy and I just wanted to meet..." She looked at me and smiled. "You! You're a doll!"I almost melted, the way she said it. I stepped up and gave her a hug. "Thank you, Mizz Elise. They were talking about me?" I looked around the room at my sisters."Said you were the ringleader," Mizz Elise said."I'm not ... All of Y'ALL get in on this stuff. I'll be the mascot, maybe!"Our conversation wasn't taking place in a. We entered the room and saw Mrs. Perkins sitting at a table with an old guy. It looked like they were going over some papers and the old guy had a nice briefcase sitting next to him on the table. It was one of those expensive leather ones. He was dressed real nice in a pinstriped dark blue suit and he stood up as we entered. We all said hello to Mrs. Perkins and she introduced us to the old guy. His name was Mr. Withers and he was Mrs. Perkins lawyer. She called him Robert. We called him Mr..