She waved for a few seconds, until eventually they’d all waved enough and she stopped, saw the others stop, and closed the curtain. She hoped she’... be allowed to see her mum, and the others, in the morning.She went to the bathroom, did her teeth and managed to cough up some of the water she’d been tortured with. Finally she crept into the bed, which had fresh clean sheets at least. She remembered her third tracker, that they hadn’t found. She couldn’t even feel it, but it was a foreign body. I was shocked when Ginger swung the door open wider and stepped into the room, then my mouth went totally agape when she quietly pushed the shower curtain aside and stepped in behind Eric. I’m sure that up to that point neither Eric or Michelle had any clue they were being watched. Even when Ginger stepped into the shower, Eric didn’t give any reaction that he had an inkling his wife had joined them. He was much too pre-occupied with my wife. Thankfully the showers were relatively large, not. “The forgetfulness was something I added just for you, as a protection of our secret.”I nodded. I shared the memory, not only of the girl, but of the emotions attached to her by her creator.Vince smiled. “Thank you,” he said. “Now I think it’s time you broke out of the illusion.”I imagined the film strip, and the illusion disappeared. Once I was back in reality, I put up my shields and checked my tell.“How did you figure out the illusion so fast?” Vince asked.I grinned at him. “You saw James. Secondly, Condi and Tom Ridge managed to call a NATO summit meeting at Ramstein. This was going to be a quick meeting, just a long day or so, and I was going to thank the NATO members who had been part of the Kurdish Coalition. The biggest help had come from the British, who had sent the 7 th Armored and a squadron of Tornado fighter-bombers, and Germany and Norway, who had sent chemical decontamination teams, medical units, and transport battalions. Foremost, of course, was Turkey, without.