I opened one of the kitchen windows and both bedroom windows, which opened into an interior air shaft.”“‘I can’t even do this right,’ she sa...d glumly, sitting up and looking at me. ‘Next time I’ll make sure no one else gets hurt.’”“I sat on the bed and took her hand. ‘Why do you want to kill yourself?’ I asked.”“‘Because I’m ugly and everyone hates me!’ she blurted out and then started to sob.”“‘I don’t think you’re ugly,’ I told her. Then I asked, ‘Why do you think that people hate you?’”“‘Do. He was more considerate in time, but first things first. Then everything settled back down and the city continued repairing itself.His well-planned schemes of working his way from simple sex through to perverted, or at least enjoyably disgusting, with the women of the house had fallen by the wayside. He couldn’t remember who he had done, and what he had done to whom. It was a good problem to have. The walls were beginning to look like walls again, the river landings were shaping up and he was. But then the misfortunes of war had delivered her into the hands of her clan`s enemies. In the barbarous times of old, defeat meant humiliating enslavement for one of Lillith?s class. Dragged from her castle, she was paraded through the streets naked and in chains to the auction block.Her golden haired beauty made the crowd gasp as she was displayed by the eager slave merchant. Biding was brisk and the sums grew large as she hung her head in shame. It appeared that Lillith would surely be sold. “It’ll keep eating until it doesn’t scent any more non-worm creatures. That was the downside.”“Now you mention it!” I shouted, collecting my warform as I charged forward and tackled the worm back out through the hole it had burst into. Irritatingly, being the size of a mecha only meant that I was on par with the worm, and the two of us tumbled into the vast forest of shattered, petrified stumps. Said stumps exploded into a haze of fragments as we tumbled over and over. My psionic arm was jammed.