Phoenix might never see my face again. And certainly not castle Cord regardless.But there was Lana, and there was the VFW, and there was our future. A...d our future, if not exactly bright, at least it had purpose, something that had been sorely lacking since my return to the states after my stint in the brown dirt country.Lana and I had a lot in common, and we needed each other. Apart from our more or less satisfying love life, there was the confluence of prime attributes: she had legs, and I. He peered into the darkened bedroom hallway, his yellow eyes, glowing in the dark dwelling, perfectly attuned to his surroundings.. But it was his nose which guided him, past various doors, until he found the strongest scent lingering about one: the door which contained his quarry, his mate, the beautiful, young child-woman we know as ?Bella.? It opened the door silently, and crept in. Now, next to the actual source of the girl-scent, he was beside himself with lustful anticipation. . All extraterrestrial guards were strictly forbidden from conversational intercourse with an abductee/specimen unless expressly permitted. Yet this Extraterrestrial Guard could not endure the train of questions without trying to ease the specimen’s apprehensions.“You are inside what you and your fellow planetary inhabitants would call an alien ship. Extraterrestrial is your fancier term. You will be fine. Your daughter, your wife, they are… of course you will all undergo… as all alien abductees. Nothing seemed modern in this room. The woman took her leave, saying she would collect Diane in time for dinner, and to make herself comfortable.Diana had been in the room, sorting out her few belongings for over an hour, when she suddenly noticed there were no electric lights overhead, and no switches on the walls. She searched the room, but found none. Only candles in large candelabra in four places around the room. Obviously, the mansion had no electricity supply. She doubted it had a.