Even now, four years after the accident that had claimed his wife's life, it was sometimes hard to look at Grace without seeing Sarah's blue eyes and ...londe hair. And it was hard not to remember that she didn't care for the nickname that Sarah had given her.Grace returned to the book."'The stockings were hung... '" ' ... by the chimney with care." 'In hopes that Saint Nicholas... '" ' ... soon would be there."Tim watched Grace turn her head to look out the window at the snow. Even in this. Rena wiped a handkerchief across my mouth.“Is she working a double shift?” I asked Rena. The Valkyrie was leaning down for Ellie to whisper in her ear. The tall woman blushed.“No, she’s got a niche as one of the drivers or a stewardess, if we’re sending the island plane to pick you up.” The island plane. The modifier told me I had multiple planes.“I saw her at The Castle today,” I recalled her fit body and bikini and the little Asian girl she had swung around and dunked.“Oh, yeah, well, there’s. And begging. Andpromising to be a good girl. And Danny's warm hand started to gently rub myass again. My stomach filled with butterflies. Something inside my headwhispered to me that he was making me really feel like a girl around himalready. And then, almost imperceptively, I felt my hose and panties beinglowered. Then I felt his finger. Or at least I thought it was his finger. Atmy ass. I felt myself tighten. And then Mike was at my ear:"Shhh, Sam. This will make you feel even sexier. Just. Justas the girl lunged at him, he put the knife to his neck and slashed. Heproceeded to gag from lack of air as he collapsed to the ground...Chapter 5: The Streets"Do you really think he's dead?" One of the girls was asking."He very well could be. You may have waited to long to activate the safety."Another said."Oh, well. Nobody'll know, right? I mean, it happened in a virtual worldinside of a virtual world." Yet another said."Yeah, but a teenage boy in good health doesn't just die of natural.