It was the end of a series of long, hot summer days and the nights were not cooling down, in fact they were becoming more humid as the weather pattern...slowly played towards a weekly storm. That afternoon, she wore a most revealing skirt that splayed outwards like a pleated tennis skirt, in vivid white, with a complimentary short soft white blouse. Her blouse was translucent and beneath her top she wore nothing else. As she walked her pert breasts moved more than usual and she perambulated more. Her eyes glazed over when she saw herself in it in the three- way mirror. Those eyes filled with tears when she read the price tag. She wept openly when I put it on my platinum card."Listen, puta," I had teased, "you got me into this mess three months ago. I'll be damned if I'm going it alone."I had kissed her softly on the cheek to soften the faux blow."Besides," I had cooed, "you deserve it."There was more champagne and canapés when we arrived, plus an honest-to-God string quartet in the main. Didn't your husband ever do anything like this, Patsy?”“No, not at all. He just stuck his dick in me and pushed until he finished and left me with a mess. Nothing sweet or nice about it.”"Oh, my poor Patsy. I saw my ma and pa lots of times when we were on the trail. They tried to hide it from me, but there wasn't a lot of room in the wagon, and they did it when I was sleeping. If you don't like me kissing you like that, I won't. I just want you to be happy."“If you want to Becky, go ahead. I. It hasn't been the same without Jennifer, but we still get the job done. SABRE pilot to Artemis command. Incursion alert. I'm coming in. Emergency pilot retrieval, dimensional fold, activate!" Matt smiled and gave a thumbs-up as he vanished.- - -The two creatures, both of them the cyborg version of the large twenty-foot adversaries, marched through the forest towards town, one behind the other. The air in front of them shimmered, and without warning Panther appeared, his axe already swinging.