" How do you live with what you've done?" My mind simply suppresses it, as it does whenever my conditioning takes control. It wasn't until weeks after...the events of the Birdcage that I realized what I'd done. Since then, everything else has slowly fallen into place." Does Karl know?" No and you won't tell him if you value your health."Emily gulped and shook her head. "I promise." Janus is a good man. Keep him happy and he'll look after you." Claire stood up and departed without another. " "All right then, Thursday after next and I'll pick a place for us to meet." He agreed wondering what he has just gotten himself into. II He pulled up in front of the country inn and was amazed she found such an out of the way place. I guess she really intends to go thru with this, he thought, and wants no one the wiser. OK Bucko, screw up your courage and go in. The three men had found themselves slammed against the walls of the room, clothes shredding away from their bodies, leaving them naked a vulnerable. They had struggled and yelled, and she’d allowed them to, wanting them to know what it was like to be helpless, to struggle and feel like maybe they had a chance of getting away but being unable to. Frightened, they stopped struggling, one by one, and just stared at the beautiful woman standing in the center of the room. ‘Witch.’ One of them hurled. "How many people died in the attack in the dream?" I honestly don't know, but after wandering around the high desert for a few weeks we only had a few hundred survivors," I said."What about the animals on that are now the surface?" Kristy is providing a shield around the entire city; hopefully it will prevent any harm from coming to them and protect stuff from the 'EMP' affect," I said."What are we going to do if everyone else dies?" Well we start over, with Kris and Kristy's help we start.