She sat to Jack’s left and stared at Georgia, a smug look on her face. Georgia just smiled, turned to Catherine sitting next to her and spoke to her...about the film ‘Ben Hur’ they both wanted to see. Susan put her hand on Jack’s arm again, vying for his attention. ‘What?’ he asked, surprised at her attention. ‘I said, ‘did you plan on going to see the next Buster Keaton film?” ‘Oh, I don’t know, probably not… that doesn’t mean you can’t go to see it. We can arrange something to take you girls. "We'll end things here fortoday. Before you go, however, please take this," Miss Stevens continued,pressing another Anxigen tablet into my hand. "It's the least I can dofor causing you such distress." We can skip the gym today, too," Marcus added, his voice resonating asmy ear was still pressed to his chest. "I mean, if you need to work outsome frustrations we can go - but if you just want to go back to the celland rest that's fine by me, too." Thank you," I said quietly. "I think I'd like some. If I take the spare to Earth and something happens to one of the others, the group without the Praetor will be crippled.”‘You must promise me that you’ll take a Praetor!’ Elaine insisted in her mind. ‘I’ll know if you’re lying! Your life depends on doing this!’Béla felt saddened by her sister’s madness. No one could see the future and know with that kind of certainty what was going to happen. Elaine watched Béla reject her demand with a terrible feeling of grief and fled her sister’s. ”“I’ve heard of them,” Treck admitted darkly, “they find the largest moral issue in a city when they enter, and then champion the forces against it. Afterwards, they use the influence and popular support to embed themselves in the city and become parasites.”“Yes they do. The fanned out through the city in a single night and set fire to every brothel and rounded up every street whore they could find. The city elders were thankful, but what nobody was told was that the whores were kept as toys,.