His years of training made the activity second nature, and almost automatically he reached the trance-like state without the aid of the mantras he was...taught as a child or the fascinating totems some of his peers constructed. He visualized the lakeside clearing where he had located the dragonfly community, appearing in his mind with vibrant greens blues and the red of the earth in this valley. The drugged vision threatened him with vertigo, but he calmed his displaced mind and recalled the. I turned and looked over my shoulder atmyself in the mirror and Nin laughed as I admired myself."You look beautiful, Jamie."I blushed and she gave me a hug. Fai had taken the garment bag down fromthe hanger, slid the dress out and laid it the back of a chair. Faiunzipped the dress and held it open for me to step into. I held onto Ninfor support and both of them gently pulled the dress up, slid my armsthrough and then up and over my shoulders. I trembled as the material slidover my skin. It was. Off of this room was a huge bedroom with several bigger than king-size beds. Off of the bedroom was a bathroom, although the term bathroom didn't really do it justice. There was a massive sunken bath, clearly able to double as a Jacuzzi, a shower that would accommodate a soccer team and wonder of wonders, a sauna. Thick towels and bathrobes were laid out around the room and various toiletries adorned a shelf.Scott walked back into the reception room once more and noticed someone else in the. Now nothing did. What was it the man Cobra had said? She’ll ‘bring a pretty penny.’ Are they going to…sell me? Her eyes darted to the steel door that suddenly opened. The pretty sheriff, the one Cobra called Jane, came in. She unlocked the cell door and tossed a pair of padded cuffs on the mattress. ‘Put one around your wrist and the other around one of the bars.’ When Anne had done so, Jane sat down on the mattress next to her. She placed the palm of her hand on her cheek. The hand was soft.