She tried to wriggle free, twisting her arms, trying to loosen the ropes around her wrists."I shouldn't bother." She heard a voice from behind her and...struggled to turn around to see where it was coming from. Andrea was sitting on the bed, looking down at her with a smile.Danni's puzzled, "What?" came out as "Ghhart?" The ropes," Andrea said. "I don't think you will loosen them. I help my brothers with their sheep. They don't get loose, you won't either." Andrea picked up a pack of cigarettes,. I had often wondered what would have happened if I would have married her instead of Amy. We both loved our spouses and wouldn't have done anything to jeopardize our marriages. I wondered if Brent and Amy had felt the same way. All the cheating and lying sure changed things.I let things slide, figuring if Beth was interested in getting together some time in the future, she would let me know. I guess one of the hardest things for me to deal with was my mom and her relationship with Amy. Mom even. Purple and blue energy swirled out, and she was in a different place.The Tsarina finished sending this memory of her long ago previous life into her new slave's mind. It was the only detail of the time before that she could still recall clearly, the rest was an irrelevant blur. She had been back there twice now, to that town, and it had only served to remind her how ripe the Earth was for conquest. If only they could acquire the portal generator, apply one of the repair patches, and activate. If it's got real problems, I'll never hear the end of it!"He stood the hood up and began running through the troubleshooting checklist that Raul had taught him, trying to verify that the elements of fuel, air, and spark were arriving together at the right place at the right time.He noticed that the spark plug wires looked pretty frayed, and suspected that was why a cylinder or two was playing hard to get. One in particular looked pretty bad where the boot at the end of it connected to the spark.