“Your being here scares the shit out of me.” The words were out of his mouth before he could stop them. Not that he could have stopped them once h... intended to speak something that wasn’t true. Not with her in the room. No one could hide any secrets once Mandy entered an area. Truth flowed from lips like sweet wine. Or perhaps it was more like raw sewage. No matter how horrible the truth was, if Mandy was around, it was spoken. No one could lie in her presence. She was a politician’s worst. So she came and saw me sleeping naked and instantly had a lustful crush on me (this thing i came to know later) so she knocked the door and i, in a hurry, wear my clothes and opened. She came in smiled. She was pretty good looking for a maid and i came to know later that she was married but only 25 years old. I initially didn’t like her because i have to change my daily routine for her. But slowly i accepted. Days passed on and we started to talk little bit. She used to touch me once in a while. They hadtheir arms around each other's shoulders, their blond, curly hair mostlypulled forward to cover their chests, and they seemed to take turnsgiggling and staggering. Sometimes, one of them leaned his head back withhis eyes closed, the same thing Caloryn had often held his head aftertaking a long toke off a joint, so he could hold it in his lungs as longas possible to get the best effect from the smoke.These two, however, did not seem to be doing pot. There was no smoke, nocoughing, no. JW was watching me as I sighed and closed the book. I looked up.“The ring? I had forgotten the ring.”He flashed the ancient ring ... of a specific size and weight.“I have it,” he said. “You do realize Cyn knows.”“About these?” I waved my hand at the books and papers.“Uh huh. She wants to publish them as fiction ... science fiction.”“High fantasy, more like,” I said. “Any possibility she believes it?”“The three of us rescued the portal.”“Oh ... now I remember ... Frogmorton. Home.”“Such as it.