<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4040FF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Alice Green</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Huntress'</span></span></div><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Alice was just as angry as Peter. She was as passionate about her size of the question as Peter was about his. It wasn't about winning the argument. Well, maybe it was a little bit about it. But it was more about the fact that everything she had seen as a miner kid was still fresh in her mind. If she closed her eyes, she could still see the guys who had returned from their contracts. She could see the ones who had not been so lucky. And of course, always in the back of her mind where her brother's story and the appearance of his body.<br/><br/>Alice shuddered a little at the mental image and took a deep breath.<br/><br/><span style="color: #4040FF">"I. Will. Not. Take. Drugs."</span><br/><br/>She spoke slowly, trying to drill each word into Peter's mind. <span style="color: #4040FF">"I don't care what you will do. I can't, Peter. I just can't. Think about this for a moment."</span><br/><br/>Alice pointed at the bottle. <span style="color: #4040FF">"We are sitting here, drinking and it's okay. But if you had watched someone you cared for deeply destroy themselves because of this very thing, would you really be okay with having it?"</span> The policewoman shook her head.<br/><br/><span style="color: #4040FF">"Give me facts, Peter. You have them, I can use them. But don't think you will ever convince me to take drugs. I can give up on this and disappear. But I can't, and won't, Peter. I know you think I'm just some stupid, stubborn bitch. I'm stubborn all right, but I'm not stupid. You know that, deep down inside, you know that I'm probably the smartest they have in the MP. That's why I'm here."</span><br/><br/>Alice rubbed both hands on her face, and then stared into Peter's eyes.<br/><br/><span style="color: #4040FF">"Show me."</span>, she murmured, referring to what happened to people who didn't do drugs.</div>