The landlady gave me a gooddeal on the rent in return for some maintenance in the house and garden. She lived on the first floor; there were another a...artment on the secondand mine was one of two on the third. The other apartment across the hallwas empty and I was to fix it up and paint it as part of the rentalagreement. I had barely moved in before the old hag, she was actuallyyounger than my sixty-one, wanted the painting done right away because shehad someone to rent it. I worked three. That genie surehad a wicked sense of humour. We spoke very little to each other in lowwhispers before quietly opening the big front door, leaving it on the latchand slipping out. It sort of came back to me as we went what this was allabout. The boys' house Oak had recently mounted a raid on our house,Sycamore, soaking all our drying laundry with buckets of water. This was aretaliatory raid to do the same thing to them. I had been chosen, by pickingcards, to use my boyfriend Simon to get their. It was worse than before. A hug and a prick would not work. So, he slashed Rayner down his arm. It worked. "This thing is using its mana as the Corpsewood God did."“Y-yeah,” Rayner stuttered, “I can’t have you slashing me, every time that happens.”“I know how we can counter that. Use your charisma”“I don’t know how yet. It’s not something I can turn on.”“Yes, it is. You just did it.”“My Roar?” Rayner said.“You use mana to activate the skill, but your charisma is what makes it effective. Your. It certainly raised me! Shades of a time gone by with her hand rubbing the front of my chinos I was the owner of a very proud erection. Lucy, busy undoing me, simply said, “I need and want that back where it once belonged.”As she finished getting me down to just my shirt, I was undoing her blouse and front-loading bra. God those lovely hard nipples I’d so missed came back into view, clearly visible in the light of the distant street lights. My hand was stroking her thigh and on reaching her.