He went carefully into the hall, glancing around to make sure no one saw him, and then tried the door to Ellen's bedroom. It was unlocked, naturally, ...nd pushing it open, he went in so quickly that he swirled back on the door, without having even looked at Ellen, and immediately locked it. The bolt made a noise as it locked, but he was sure the noise wasn't too loud and no one would have heard it. And it turned out he was right, luck was with him... so far.Ellen lay in the exact same position. It'll be decades before they can leak the stuff inside this thing even to DARPA. They tell me the original that it's based on is less than half the size, but it sure beats the huge machines in hospitals that you have to put a patient inside to get any information." It's also a decent stand-in for dissection, which is helpful when your only specimen is still alive.She activated the scanner, and it hummed as it probed the insides of the demon. "You might feel a light tingling," Claire said. "Let. She saw a proud, self-confident man, clearly well-muscled under his clothing, with chiseled features set off by his dark complexion. But it was his uniform, his strict military bearing, that drew the most of her attention. Another damn soldier, ran through her mind. Does he think, or is it beaten out of all of them during their training?Lovely man, though, her thought continued idly. Wish I'd met him in another context.Still she delayed as her eyes wandered about the room, taking in its. I tried stalling him, saying that I didn’t have the time right now, but that I would text him later.Then, one day while I was cleaning, I found a small round thing sticking out from the spine of a book. When I opened it, I found a cut-out with a small cubic thing stuck inside. When I inspected it more thoroughly, I understood that it was a camera. The way it had sat in the shelf, it had been facing the bed directly. Instantly, I got hard and there was this pounding in my chest again. I found.