How Long!? Present Day "Five months!? I thought it was about three," said Amanda, sitting on the bed next to Dale, feeling better than she could ever remember in terms of cleanliness. She was wrapped up in a heavy white dressing gown, a towel tight around her head and every inch of her scrubbed until she gleamed. Her shower took over an hour and Dale had ended up calling to her to check she was okay. She was better than okay, she felt almost like a human being with her own identity for the first time. "No, it's been just over five months, and every day I've been trying to find a way to get you out but nothing has worked up until now." "What do you mean? You knew where I was, right?" "Well, yeah, but it wasn't as easy as that. It was in the future, so I couldn't exactly go to the authorities and try to explain, and besides, Hector was so goddamn rich that he had just about every politician and person in the police force in his pocket. It was the promise of a damn Hexad, it meant the place was strictly off-limits." "People knew?" Amanda was shocked.
