Technology had moved on in the six years since she had left to start a family. Computers had taken over completely in the office. Instead of a typewri...er sitting on the desk, it was now a smart screen and keyboard. The telephone came over a headset and coffee came from a machine in the middle of the floor in a vending area. Moving house had seemed exciting, a new beginning. We had to rent in the private sector because I earned too much to get help from the Council. Since the company folded,. By the time each one of us had fired both barrels, the bandits were hightailing it for greener pastures. I don't know that they ever fired a shot at us, but I was still happy to pay out the $25 bonus to the two men when they delivered us to the railroad station.I checked the strongbox into the express car and watched as it was chained to an eye-bolt fastened to the floor of the car. Nobody was going to run off with that strongbox without some way of breaking the chain! We three took our places. They didn't find any knives. But the results were obvious."Catheryne felt a chill down her spine. "What happened?" Catheryne, hush," said her father. He laid his hand on Queen Meralina's.She didn't understand. What results? What obvious. "What happened?" They were chopped to pieces," Jordan said coldly.... On second thought, perhaps she had been better off not knowing."And... This has happened more than once," Father said."The second was thirteen days ago," Queen Meralina said. "This time it. He got up, andwent to his bedroom and pulled out what looked like a tinfoil hat andsaid, 'I could give you a demonstration, if you like.'I said, 'Look, you might need to have a long rest, but it doesn'tmatter. You have to tell them, or I will have to.'He said, 'You have no idea what its like to feel like I feel. But I canchange that,' and then he pushed a button on the hat, and suddenly ithit me like a ton of bricks.I knew the feelings weren't mine, but I couldn't resist them, they.