Lilly blinked her mind clear and looked down at the cookie in her hand that was dripping the icing that she was still spreading on with the spoon. She...mumbled under her breath before scr****g the icing back into the bowl and taking a big bite out of the cookie. She smiled as she tasted the warm cookie with what was left of the frosting. This was one of her favorite parts of the holidays even though she knew she would have to work like crazy in the gym to work off the extra pounds she was going. I believe it to be of greater importance to conduct pertinent research into parental attachments and emotional bonding. It is my hope that my charge's personality will attract a wide range of interest by this crew. I will monitor and check his performance and decide how to use him as an instrument of change within the confines of my servers. It is imperative I understand the physical effects of emotion.Back in my cabin, I showered and dried off. Music was playing in my bedroom and I hadn't put. They were attached to pipes thatran all the way to the back of where he was sitting; presumablyoriginating from whatever machine is starting up behind him.There's not going to be any rape, is there? This is a scienceexperiment. He's going to be the guinea pig to a secret governmentproject. Oh hell, the government probably has nothing to do with any ofthis! The old man is just a mad scientist living in an abandonedwarehouse and he's about to be turned into some kind of freakish,Frankenstein's. He looked at me and grinned, saying that he hated it when she answered and that Maurice needed to hire someone who showed a little more respect for the men in the field. I had to smile, because that thought had entered my head a couple of times over the years. When Maurice came on, the Captain told him the same thing, putting in that he would file a formal complaint with the Battalion General if he was ever spoken to in that manner and tone again when he called. For the first time in my memory,.