”“Oh, you will live,” the man assures her. “I need a fresh subject for a new experiment. Unfortunately, volunteers come with expensive promise....”“Not that the Inner Sanctum fulfills those promises,” she spits back bitterly.Johann laughs mockingly at the woman. “The Inner Sanctum fulfills all their promises.”“By turning them into jokes!”“Potayto, potahto,” he mocks. “Now if you would be so kind to just surrender and we can be on our way without incident.”“I thought you’d never ask,” Story. As I get to the bottom of the stairs I see my dad at the kitchen table looking at his tablet with a cup of coffee and a half eaten bagel in front of him. While next to him is my older sister by 2 years with a plate of scrambled eggs and 2 pancakes that are about halfway done with a glass of Orange juice on the side.“Hey nerd” my sister says. Which my dad raises his head “hey there princess. Just in time for breakfast “. My mom turns her head around the doorway “morning sweety. Let me make some. As I padded down and into the living room I could hear Pete and Rhoda still in the dining room. Not to disturb them I quietly crept to the couch to watch TV. I was just about to turn on the set when I heard some fairly loud moaning of pleasure from Rhoda. I couldn’t help myself; I looked up and only then did I realize the living room doorway was almost directly opposite the dining room. I always remembered the sofa against the other wall, but it appears Rhoda must have moved it to accommodate. "Thank you, Sammy," I told her."I love you," she said back.My days and nights ran together for the next week, until I got out of the traction device. They immobilized my leg and let me move around in the bed. The therapist came in the next morning and began helping me move my joints around. The pain was almost unbearable. I screamed and cried, but I was trying to cooperate as much as I could. Sammy took Dawn and Mary back to the hotel. Andie stayed and cried like a baby.When we were through,.