***Jim had met a few strange people while walking but none stranger than this little woman he saw while walking down an alleyway. She seemed to be the...happiest woman alive when she saw Jim but as soon as she did she squinted and started covering her eyes as if she was looking at the sun. After passing this woman Jim felt sharp pains all over his body and heard a snakelike voice whispering something about "the mind and body of a woman child."Jim saw the world around him getting larger and larger. For this sort of thing, I always have to store it in my short term, then wait something like five or six hours before I can really use it. It takes that long for it to get stored in my long term memory. My mom and dad are like that too. I think it has to do with being telepathic.”“Why not just use people already here?” Higgs asked.“Because once I store something in someone else’s memory, it stays there. The only thing I can do then is hide it by burying it. After about a year, it gets pretty. . earthy... like boiled potting soil. It was everything I could do to bring myself to take a second sip.They all laughed at my attempts to choke the stuff down; Laura leaned over and said to me, "Trust me, there is absolutely nothing that can be done about the flavor. I've tried everything, sugar, honey, creamer; everything. Nothing works! In fact, most things actually tend to make it worse! On the upside, it tends to have an energizing effect, like coffee and you will start to get used to the. That fit in nicely with my plans, so I readily accepted his invitation.Mike was very quiet and shy, exactly the type of guy I had in mind for my sexual experimentation. I figured he would be easy to control, and would be too much of a nice guy to try anything I wasn't ready for. If I said stop, I was pretty sure he would. When we got inside we got a couple of sodas out of the fridge and he led me down the hall to his room. I didn't say anything, I just followed him. I thought it was a good sign.