“And I’ll do yours. Ready?”Michele nodded.A dozen candles glowed around the circle and Michele knelt to spread the book on the grass. The letter... on the page came into sharp relief. “In nomine Dei nostri Satanas Luciferi excelsi. In the name of Satan, the Ruler of the earth, the King of the world, I command the forces of darkness to bestow their power upon me…”The words came easily, as if she’d been practicing them for years. Zoe recited the four names and rang a black bell that she’d prepared. My bodyguard now spoke of a certain woman that he favored. His confidence was no longer whole and an occasional hollow look in his eyes told me when he was reliving the pain of that day.Some inspiration had me ask Ferry if he wanted another challenge. I wanted someone to create an organization called the "Veterans of Defiance Bridge." The holder of the command position would supervise the construction of a building for the organization and run it. Warriors and healers present at the battle. He called Sid, a business contact and friend, early in November, asked him for the loan of his corporate cabin in the North Woods. It would be a chance for Jeff and Barbara to get away for a weekend. They would be alone together for three days. He wanted renewal, re-contact with her. They could do it ahead of the Thanksgiving and the Christmas rush. Jeff's and Barbara's business was important to Sid's, and he readily agreed.Jeff knew the way to the cabin because he had been there during the. Joy-for-you. High-test-sex. Sex-and-love.And he stared up atBlinking neon breasts, a lewdly beckoning mechanical finger pointing, pointing to a strangely gleaming needle: a 500-meter tilted chrome-and-plexiglas mast firing off electrical discharges, arcing flares of artificial lightnings in actinic starbursts, sending down salvos of fat sparks to explode in bursts of glowing pinpoints over the shiny bald heads of the raging mob foaming around it.LOVE-O-MAT -- {flash} -- A fully automated sexual.