“My Master may postpone that eventual reckoning for a greatly lengthened natural lifespan.”John’s eyebrows shot up. “How much longer?”The va...p paused. “My Master indicates that in your case, due to your exemplary performance in the Task, what is normally squared will now be cubed. Your one-hundred-year expected lifetime will now be a million-year eon. Is this your wish?”John picked his jaw up off the ground. “A million years? Hell yeah! Let’s do it!”Another bowed head from the Patriarch, and. The really expensive ones were, to his eyes, gaudy as fuck, but high rollers and guests with more money than taste flocked to them. This one was designed with longer-term stays in mind with generously-sized bedrooms, multiple en suite bathrooms, a full kitchen, and sturdy furniture meant to be lived on rather than just admired. If loss of revenue were no object, this is where Royce would want to live.Even before they’d gotten fully into the main room, Nagusa turned to face him. “Are you coming. Henry found him another $10 bill. The man flashed Henry a toothy grin and left.By the time that Henry had registered and been given his room key the almost naked woman had, to his disappointment, gone. In spite of the absence of entertainment Henry made his way back to the bar. He ordered a beer. The barman insisted that he could only serve alcohol to foreign nationals and was then disappointed when Henry showed him his passport, the extra tips for this illegal service obviously making up part. Because of some events in our mutual past, she earned a level of respect and admiration that only a few people have ever earned with me. As with any other best friends we could talk to each other about any subject and know we would not pay a price for our openness. I think this is very unusual for people of opposite genders, but we somehow managed it. It has been very useful in helping us understand our spouses, because Rene would often ask me for a man's perspective of her relationship with.