Feeling incredibly petty but unable to keep the eruption of emotions from showing. Especially after what she had seen last night."I got kind'a curious...what was going on up here!" Sasami told him, enjoying the feeling of 'being held'. "There was a lot of racket! Sounded like a party!" Well..." He attempted."And you didn't think to come and get me?" She half pouted."It wasn't really a party Sasami," Tenchi stammered suddenly feeling very, exposed for some reason. "There was this girl and." And. Miles slowly came to, waking up out of the high that he had been in. It had been a weird one this time around, weird, but also frightening. Normally, when he got high, it was pure euphoria, something that took him to a place of bliss. This time, though, was more like a nightmare, one which he feared he wouldn’t wake from.He remembered the darkness that had encroached on his high, blackening everything. Miles could feel the very essence of it, which was what he supposed pure evil would feel. “We’ll do this by chance then. OK, I’m going to write the numbers one through four on these slips of paper and then fold them and put them in the bowl and mix them up. Whoever gets 1 goes first!” Carol tore off four small slips of paper, wrote a number on each, folded them, dropped them in the bowl, covered it with her hand and shook the bowl vigorously. “Each of us will take a slip of paper. Don’t look at it until I tell you to. Chicken shit Louise, you first!” Louise glared at Carol. “If. "* * *A stone archway with a skull carved into the keystone led the way to thetop of the stairway that led down into the Catacombs, and the guardwomenforced me to walk all the way down the stairs. As soon as I had reachedthe bottom, one of them closed and barred the door behind me: I was on myown from here on in."Had I actually been the young man Queen Tetisheri took me for," I said tomyself, "I would be trapped inside the Catacombs forever. As it is, I canfind my way in the dark quite.