" We laughed lightly. She carried the coffee cups and her purse down the steps. "Put your purse over there. We could both use some more coffee. I'll m...et you in the kitchen." I put the sheets in the washer with a bunch of towels and started it. I headed into the kitchen."How do you like your coffee, Ethan?" Black with just a hint of sugar, if any at all. Thanks. Go up to Jess's room and make sure she is moving. Her bed needs to be stripped and the sheets brought downstairs. John was with her.. I tried to hump the seat, but it didn't help, I couldn't move at all.And then, to make matters worse, a gush of cold water came from somewhere inside and flowed over my genitals. My penis deflated in a hurry, and I grimaced at the cold clammy touch of the chair and the bench."Now what?" I wondered, disgusted. Just then, the video monitor in front of me flickered to life, as did high-wattage bulbs surrounding it. I took a good look at it.It was my face. The flat-screen monitor was showing my. ”“The head of kings, the tail of beasts, and when you eat, the cost of feasts. What am I?”“Well that is silly,” said Simon. “You already told me what you are. You are a beast with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle—a sphinx. If you have another name, you haven’t been polite enough to introduce yourself.”“The answer is not me,” the sphinx said gleefully, rising to pounce on and eat Simon.“It certainly is,” said Simon. “You asked, ‘What am I?’ I correctly identified. "Bathwater Baby."Several eyebrows were raised at the utterance of the phrase 'bathwater baby'."what?" Anya asked. "It's just something the security system can use for voice identification." Right," everyone seemed to say at once, bringing a little snicker in response from Anya.The storage space itself was large enough that Anya could have walked into it, if she had wanted to, but the back of the unit seemed to be full of clothes hung on a series of rods that could be swung out from both sides.