A quick evaluation of my options made it clear that my only chance for survival this time was to shift to Panther as quickly as I could and run like h...ll for Marcus. Without his wings, Zaire would have to follow me on foot. He'd have the advantage for the twenty yards of open field but, once I entered the trees, I could turn the tables. This was my home turf and he'd made a mistake in confronting me here. All I had to do was wait for an opening."I'm here to finish what we started," he. She didn’t know how to feel about what had happened. He had freely admitted that he had lots of lady friends, but his claim that he was exploring relationships with an eye toward marriage put it all in a different light. And he’d been a perfect gentleman around her, other than lying indolently across from her looking handsome enough to charm even Gladys. She giggled with a trace of hysteria, trying to imagine Gladys in that tree house. All she could imagine was Gladys huffing and puffing,. " So, your parents didn't punish you?" Nope! They even were comforting towards me, and they told me that everything would be fine." I'm glad to hear that," Frederik said. "And what did they say about your ... umm ... piercings." That surprised me the most! They thought it wasn't too bad, my mum even said that if I had asked them, they would probably have let me do it anyway." Wow, that's very cool of them. So, you aren't grounded or anything?" No, they think that my ADP punishment is already. The guard drag me to a room where I see a lone mechanical arm that hung over a large metallic bed. "Lay down Dinkerman." The wardens voice came from speaker on the wall. "Due to low narcs I can't promise this will be painless."I knew I was a dead man but I'll be damned if I'm used as some sort of guinea pig for the Spector. I tried to wrestle out from the guard grip but the more I struggled I noticed that they got stronger. "Its too late to avoid this Dinkerman." They both said in unison and.