But while we journey to my new home you must travel three steps behind me."Dennis found himself free to move, and tried to bolt into the mists, but co...ld not. In fact, as Fazir began to move off, he was compelled to fall into step, three steps to the rear of the greater djinn.After a time, Dennis was able to gather his wits enough to ask; "What will happen to me?"Although Dennis could not see it, Fazir smiled. "You will serve me as a concubine. You will care for my house and share my bed." He. " her voice dropped to a terrified whisper, "to invoke Protocol 14!" She stopped speaking again, hiding in my chest. I stroked her hair and kissed her again, trying to show her I loved her.I didn't know what Protocol 14 was. I didn't understand any of this. But she obviously knew, and it apparently was terrible. I felt her body trembling as she worked up the courage to go on."Protocol 14 was designed by our... ancestors, just for this reason. Very few knew about it. I may have been the only one. I realized that it was I, Burt Hendrix who recognized it and that I was not the one recalling what was happening. That being wanted to be referred to as "Dreamer."Several of the crew got into a shuttle and I went along with them. I realized that while Dreamer was more or less free, its essence was contained in a package one of them carried in a back pack. A seamless box, maybe a couple of inches deep and six by eight inches in measure, its outside made of a dull metal. I knew then that Dreamer. "It is obvious they know what they're doing. Let's go home."Back at the house, after an hour, I checked up on how the new girls were doing."They're incredible, Boss," said one of the S's, who were manning the security room. "They are going at it faster than anyone I've ever seen. They should be nearly done with that sector by lunch."Usually it took a whole day to finish with a sector.I was officially impressed. "Maybe they could give you all pointers, later."The TK's had the S's put Sector 8's.