.. to... to... Oh it was just so horrible." Well Mrs. Jones I know that this will be hard on you, but if we are going to catch this guy I'm going to h...ve to ask you some questions. I know it may sound like I'm prying into some personal things but every little scrap of information that I can get will help us. Please tell me in your own words what happened. Start at the beginning and tell me everything." I came home from work and I had stopped at the store. As I was putting the groceries away I. Have a nice day."I went downstairs. "Mom, can you get Trina to stop playing music that loud? For heaven's sake, it's only ten-thirty in the morning." I'm not going to make the obvious comment," said my father, who is often wakes at six AM on weekdays."Thank you," I said. "Seriously, Mom, it's gonna drive me insane. Can you tell her to stop?" Arie, you are seventeen," my mother said. She filled her watering can from the kitchen sink's tap, focusing on not splashing anywhere. "You are almost. "And what wereyou doing spying on me?" Two little kisses my ass," she shot back. "And I wasn't spying on you.I was just coming into the kitchen to get a drink when Phil's car pulledin. After a while, when you didn't come in, I looked to see if itreally was you. And sure enough, it was. With him draped all over youand you leaning in to kiss him." Oh shit That's not what happened." I responded despondently. "Can Iplease explain?" Explain what?" she asked angrily. "You think you can convince. Craven’s hands shook as she walked. “I-I’ll have you know, I’m just a thaumatech. I don’t ... I don’t make any of the decisions, I just ... work the machines.”“That’s not a great way for us to begin our relationship,” Ceaith growled, her claws springing out of her fingertips. “What the fuck are you people doing here?”Craven ducked her head forward as they came to a set of corridors, each one leading to a different room. Each room had a glass window in it and one of them had another thaumatech.