Barbara could not help but gasp at seeing this, and a bolt of heat hit her own loins, spreading all through her lower body and heating her skin all th... way up to her chest.Elgitha's cries of lust were still in Barbara's ears when she stumbled up the stairs and to her private chamber. With Elgitha and Hannah busy in the bath, Barbara was alone in her bedchamber.She lay down on her bed and closed the curtains. Tentatively, she let her hand brush over her left breast, and she gasped at the bolt of. Next to the phone was a cheap orange plastic ashtray that someone had picked up at Expo '67, full of the white-tipped cigarette butts from the habit my Mom wouldn't kick for another year or two.Should I answer the phone? I hesitated, then laughed at myself. Why not? Since when was talking on the phone in a dream ever a problem."Hello." Hi Phil. What'd I drag you from? You took forever to answer."I knew Ellen's crystal sing-song voice instantly. It had hardly changed. I tried frantically to. When the dust settled, the returning scout had spotted a blood trail. The platoon had been inserted to follow the trail.For two hours they had cautiously followed the streaks of blood. Someone, probably more than one someone from the marks in the dusty soil of the trail, had been seriously hurt. They had found nothing else though. There had been no bodies, no weapons, no supplies.Taylor held his hand up in an alert signal. The entire platoon froze. Then "Get down" came from the point man and a. She began to think of her partner, John, and missed him. It's a pity, she thought, that Gina took more after her mother. John was tall, but their offspring tended to small, like her. Still, her fair hair was nearer her fathers in colour and her mothers in length and thickness. Rada watched the pair of friends for a while. So much alike in the way they related - like her love hate thing with Rasida.Rasida and her could never be separated, of course. Rasida was Sean Beth's and Roger's daughter.