She knelt, and filled it from the pool in her cavern."Please. Place your things on the floor. They will be safe," she said to me.I placed everything i... my cloak, and placed it on the floor beside me. She then handed me the cup. I bowed my thanks, and drank it all. First my tongue, and then my throat went numb.I could feel it traveling down my throat, and into my stomach. The numbness spread, and I felt myself falling. The Goddess didn't try to catch me. I could feel myself hitting the hard. .. see Teri while Brian is gone?" The voices belonged to Mark and Stan, two guys that I worked with. They stopped at Mark's car and kept talking."I don't know. She's a great fuck, but she is just a little bit too wild. Sooner or later Brian is going to catch on and I don't necessarily want to go down when she does."(Short laugh) "But going down is one of the things that she does best."(More laughter) "Why did you stop fucking her?" She cut me off. I went over there one afternoon and she had two. You will tell us what my friend Jeff wants to know. How much pain you endure before we turn you over to the Iraqi police is up to you."The man replied in Arabic, "You would not be helping Americans. They are your enemy."In English Shania replied, "Americans we may or may not help, depending on what's in it for us, but these are not Americans. They, and I come from a country called Lattus."I opened my mouth in shock. "You are a watcher?"She laughed. "We all do what is necessary. Amanda suffered. He glanced down, and sure enough a white-and-black cheerleader skirtenveloped his waist, hugging tight, tanned, teenage thighs.Lazlo's mind instantly snapped into "alert mode," and he quicklyassessed his new situation. White tennis shoes (damn they're small),short white ankle socks, the skirt -- it's awfully short and lookspleated, a shirt of some kind -- white, black, a bit of blue trim. Somelettering across the chest: reading it upside down, what was it? ... D-N-H-S ... his old alma.