An alarmed glance into the mirror revealed thatshe was wearing a black leather collar, suitable for a commonplacepleasure slave. Except for her lament...ble lack of a brand, the nude andcollared Elin resembled nothing so much as an uncommonly pretty memberof that sisterhood."Take it off, you perverted wretch!" she howled indignantly. She didn'twait for me to reply before plunging this way and that in a vain attemptto free her hands. I smiled at all the fuss she was making. Had Gwanc,the tyrant of. Instead, it was one of those bacchanalian fests where more than fifty percent of the guests were female, and most wore little that left anything to the imagination. If I had possessed the energy, it might have had a positive effect, but I was exhausted and soon, after too much alcohol, not enough food, and way too much work, I sought my bed on the second floor, closed the door, stripped naked and collapsed onto the bed.As I lay there and processed the various outfits, and the bodies in and out. ‘You know that I was excited when I got my first promotion at Empire Life. It was the first time that I thought that it wasn’t just a job and that I might have a career and be successful. I suddenly realized I wanted to be successful. I wanted to move up in the organization. I wanted to be ‘somebody.’ That started my changing the way I looked at my life, my marriage, and my future. ‘When I found I was now reporting to Peter Ambleton, I was happy. He was a dynamic person in our office, and. "I'll go get em!"Without another word, Kitty ran out through the wall of the X-Jet, straight towards the park bench the new mutant was sitting on. It was a mark of how deeply troubled the boy was when he didn't even notice the girl in the skintight spandex running directly towards him as he stared into the distance. "Hey!" Kitty called as she sat down next to him. "How're you doing?"The boy jumped and shook his head, as if awaking from a dream. "Holy shit!" he yelled. "When'd you get here?".