It had haunted hissleep, hounded his waking hours. And the strangestthing was -Something had happened last week, something which hadreleased all the p...nt-up heat simmering in the pit ofhis belly. It wasn't the first time it had happened,but the experience had never been so intense. It hadoccurred in the space of a few moments, striking himwith the force of a biblical revelation, altering hisperceptions at the most intrinsic level. And althoughhe didn't realise it, this change had been coming. We're out of fuel."Chapter 2The valley was a great place to land. The plane floated in with no problem at all. It was just like landing on a bad runway.I unbuckled screaming, " YOU O.K. BABY?"As I ran to the back of the plane, Channtel jumped into my arms crying. Big tears ran down her face as she hugged and kissed me."Are we really going to be here five months?" Channtel ask.I looked into her eyes, " Baby, I'm sorry. It mite be longer than that." What about my baby," she began to cry, " she'll. . have you?" My heart nearly stopped its mad pounding when I realized he was a virgin."N... no," the boy mumbled weakly.I stood up and let my robe fall to the floor. I reached behind me and unhooked the lavendar lace bra. "Have you ever seen a girl naked, Timmy?" N... no... just Mom..." His sudden gasp of breath hissed loudly in the quiet room as he looked up at me. I stood with my full thighs slightly apart, naked, except for the garter belt, nylons and the sheer lavender lace of my. “I think we’ve come across the book called The Wisdom of Ptolemy. And by the looks of it, it was placed here to be found.”“You think this is the book that the monastery copied?”“An ink analysis would verify it,” Keith answered her question. “There aren’t that many manuscripts that were written with cyanide laced ink.”“If you take the manuscript out of here with us,” Fry said, “you have to have a plan for releasing it, or you have to guarantee that it is going to be kept secret in your Guild. I.