Desperate to see her sister and despite the fact that she would be severely reprimanded and confined to quarters if she was caught, Elaine hid in Béla’s personal shower stall. Xnx She could move again. “What?” Elaine asked, surprised back from her morbid thoughts. She sat down on her bed, unable to eat any of the fruit she’d brought over from the cooler, and brooded. “Absolutely not!” Elaine exclaimed. Elaine saved him the trouble by angrily dropping an image of her last half-hour in the communal baths directly into her father’s mind, full volume. ‘Dampers?’ Béla suggested, laughing and wrestling playfully with her sister. “Well,” she said, “either they’ve damped off the entire corridor between here and the communal baths, or we’re the only two left on the ship.”
“But, I’m supposed to be escorted,” Béla insisted.
