The house was pretty tidy, mainly because I had not been in it much over the past while and all I needed to do was air the rooms.The head-hunter I'd b...en dealing with came through with a brilliant offer for the following week so I called into the office, did the dirty and drove home. It felt strange, I had been working there for quite some time. I think they wrote me off as having some emotional troubles after the crash because I had always been just a 'steady Eddie' beforehand. My pompous old. Meanwhile, I want you to remember that this arrangement will continue onlyfor as long as you can pay for it. Is that clear?"I shook myself out of the reverie into which I had somehow fallen and nodded."Much as I might like you personally," She Devil continued, "and I do findmyself strangely attracted to you, I can only survive as long as this showprospers. We serve a rich clientele, but that also means that our expensesare high and our arrangements complicated. I had a girl here, very much. Her legs turned into a stalk just below her knees and ran into a shallow bulb which rested on the ground. Maroon lines running up her sides and down her arms were the hiding places of her numerous spines, each able to produce a large drop of the sticky fluid she used to immobilize her prey.She had always felt that her arms looked strange, nothing like what she had seen on humans and other monster girls. There was no discernable elbow despite bending where one would normally be. They were also. There is not a single person in this town, or many of the surrounding towns, who doubts Santos is involved in some illegal activities, but proof has never been found. And there is no telling how many public officials are in his back pocket. He is a wily character, but someone, whom I will not name, is certainly providing him with some very good legal advice; at least that's how it appears to many of us on the other side of his largess. He and his ilk do not help the future of this county—or the.
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