"I had asked Lanno what some of the herbs did. That particular one he said was used to clean deep wounds without irritating or causing more damage. I ...igured it might work to clean the flask without scratching the glass, since you had warned against using anything abrasive." You have a very keen mind, Amanda," said Vanlo as he put down the flask.Amanda warmed to the praise, but it faded her eyes tracked the flask to the two more on the table. Two more contained failed formulae corrupted with. In fear of Johana, I had to go through with this now. I returned to the lounge to find only a handful of guests still there. Marcus was standing by the fireplace talking to the tall blond man who rang the bell earlier. As I walked over, Marcus noticed me. "Is that all they could find you?" he boomed across the room at me. I shrugged and I'm sure I blushed as I continued over to Marcus. He introduced me to the tall blond guy, Antonio, who was also dressed in a dinner suit. He was about my age,. Ann stopped as soon as the alien stopped. They were low enough that it was safe for Ann to lower her window, so she did and gestured for the alien to land. It took quite a bit of waving before the alien figured out what she wanted, but eventually he did land.Ann stayed in front of the alien as he went down, and she landed when he did. Just to emphasize her point, Ann fired a shot into the ground in front of the alien. The alien did not know what to do, so he just froze in place.Jimmy landed to. Driven by curiosity, he cautiously probed that period of her life to get a hint of what happened, without being too obvious. He got a few clues. She inadvertently told him the move to Salinas happened very suddenly and was traumatic for her. She mentioned in passing that she felt that her father had betrayed and abandoned her. A little while later she said that she hated her father and "that fucking bitch he's with". When they approached Salinas, she mentioned that in Lincoln she was raised by.