“Mentor, I want to apologize for the way I acted the last time we talked.”“Thank you, Doug, but I have had some time to think about it, and I no... believe that you were correct in your assesment of my attitude. I will undertake your attitude from now on and accept the responsibility for my decisions. I realized that I had been using you as a scapegoat, and that had to stop. Please accept my apology.”“Certainly, and I now consider us to be back on our former footing. That makes me feel one hell. "Wha...who?"you rub your eyes."GREETINGS MORTAL,"the light says in a booming voice. "I AM THADDEUS, GOD OF TIME. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOU FOR A WHILE NOW AND HAVE CHOSEN YOU AS MY VESSEL." Your...vessel?"you sit upright. "What do you mean?" WHEN YOU AWAKEN, YOU WILL HAVE TWO ABILITIES. THE FIRST IS THE ABILITY TO CONTROL MINDS. THIS IS SELF-EXPLANATORY. YOU CAN MAKE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE AN ANIMAL, GET THEM TO FUCK YOU, WHATEVER. THEY WILL DO SO IF YOU MIND CONTROL THEM."THE SECOND ABILITY IS. In fact, Chuck went out of his way to make sure the new guys knew that. Chuck had been the quiet leader of our team during the season, and sure showed it then.After that first game where I'd struggled to get hits early on, I hit consistently and well, with a home run in seven of the next eight games, including three multi-homer games. I finished the season with only a single fielding error, a bad reaction to a funny hop on a line drive down the third base line, twenty one home runs, twelve. I had specified three garments, all had been delivered a specified. The first a simple cincher in a heavy black fabric was designed to constrict the waist severely. The second, in rose pink satin – a fabric I considered to look well against Nicola's dark hued skin – stretched from just above her sex to her upper torso where it supported, but did not cover, her breasts. The final garment, a more substantial affair in heavy cloth was designed to provide a sculpting of her entire upper body..