"It's all connected. Like I told you, we need you to take a little trip with us. When we have permission, we'll tell you everything." Adriana reached ...o lovingly touch her friend's face. "And please don't think anything bad, for there isn't anything. We've simply made a promise and we're ... morally bound to honor that promise until certain ... things change. We want you to meet some very nice people, anyway. After that, we'll be able to tell you everything that's happened to us." Well, that. She smelled the salt on his skin, the fading aroma of her own scents that followed their vigorous lovemaking. His skin burned, it seemed to her, when she rested the pads of her fingers on his neck to feel his steady pulse. His hair, unkempt and uncut since their last port, was redolent of salt and sweat. She felt the stubble on his cheek. A visit to the barber at their next port would be in order, she thought.For herself as well. She’d seen her reflection in the broken piece of mirror in their. Gosh, she took her sister’s daughter to take care of, and the girl is an esper. Against all odds, she adopted an esper child.’‘Inside and out, it’s not hard for me to love such a woman.’‘I know master, you don’t need to explain to me, you admire her a lot, right?’‘Not to mention that face, that body ... Ah, I really want to have sex with her. If I get into her bed, I can only get out in a hundred years.’‘By the way, how was the dream? Did you like it?’‘That’s the problem. I remember some. She closed her eyes and confidently counted to ten. She was even more amazed that when she opened her eyes, nothing had changed. Belinda's overwrought, suburban mind did the next logical thing. Belinda's body crumpled to the ground in a dead faint.Things had not improved for Belinda when she came to. She was now inside a cave or cavern. It was dark with torch light coming from other places. Belinda started to hyperventilate, but then her housewife's instincts kicked in. This is just like any.