Members of the cartel were traveling at will across the border with no fear of the Mexican police. The cartel was setting up camp in many US cities: L...s Angeles, Flagstaff, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Denver and Oklahoma City. They were turning some of these into major distribution hubs.Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela - at the prodding of their Soviet masters - were willing to send troops to help fight the cartel. Mexico was smart enough to have none of it.At 1400 after lunch a statement was. I could still think and felt somewhataware of what was going on. I wondered if she had drugged my drink… untilI heard what she said. "You are mine now Davey, you are going to be my new pet. I'll use youand keep you to serve my whims. When I am through with you then you will bediscarded in the street. I'll break your little heart and I won't care fora minute. As long as you are my property then you will obey every command.You will remain under my spell until I choose to release you ". Her spell?. I caught myself starting for the men's room butquickly turned for the women's room instead. After adjusting the strapson my slip I checked my makeup and hair then returned to finishshopping. I tried to get into the swing of things and relax. I seemed to bepassing! No stares, no commotion, no panic was evident at me being in agrocery store totally dressed like a woman. I realized of course thatin this day and age nearly all of the women in the store wore jeans andseemed to care little about. It was such a subtle movement that it was no wonder that she had not noticed before but now there was no denying that the entire area was tectonically unstable.Maybe the purple mist was seeping out from volcanic outlets in the jungle floor? Its very existence lent merit to the reason why previous adventurers to this strange and forbidding region had never returned. There was also the possibility that the exotic and fanciful tales about the pyramid tomb stemmed from a similar source. The group.