Unfortunately the actual mining was proving to be much more problematic. Apparently there were some local tribesmen ‘Adivasis’ who also laid claim...to the site on religious grounds and were preventing construction. While civil servants were ever ready to sign off on permits given a little palm greasing, displacing a bunch of backward tribals from what they claimed to be sacred land was far more complicated. The subsidiary company’s management had shown little progress in over a month and the. “She wants to see you.”There was no need to explain who “she” was, even if we’d never said her name. He followed me in and waited.I walked back to my closet and threw a set of clothes on the bed. Tommy stood by while I stripped the giant t-shirt I slept in off, and pulled them on.Tommy didn’t even seem to notice, but then he only had eyes for one girl.We walked out to the car in silence and darkness.I didn’t bother asking Tommy if he knew what Donna wanted. He wouldn’t know. And if he did, he. He is a mad scientist. The only reason he isn't locked up is he is a good mad scientist and the government knows it. Otherwise they would have found him a padded cell instead of a multimillion dollar, state-of-the-art lab. Now, where are they? And where is Ilsa? I missed her the last time I came through." Ha! There's for your perfect timing! Alex is at a soccer game and Sean is at a friend's working on his science fair project," she told me as she led me inside and down the hall to the kitchen.. That was it. No mention of what he would do to her. No mention of what to do if she didn't want to play with him or negotiate things. Just commands.But as the week went on, the fantasies in her head ran away with her. Could she maybe live it out? On Friday, she was still torn, so she drove to his neighborhood early and looked at his house. It looked like a nice suburban house, hardly noteworthy. There was no car in the driveway, but there was an attached garage. The lights were on downstairs..