. I.. could do that" Mike said to me somewhat stuttering."You can Mike? I could really use it. I’ve been walking so much the past 3 days" Not reall... true, but he couldn’t know that."I'll do it on one condition" He said to me "Name it Bro" I replied"I want..." He started to say but stopped."Yes?" I tried to encourage him."I want to touch your body... in..." He again couldn’t finish his sentence. Although I wasstarting to get the impression of what he wanted."Mike... You can do anything you want. I gave my name as David Bates. I wasn't too surprised whenJezzi left a meeting and met me inside.She looked me up and down. "This is quite an improvement, David. Youlook very attractive." I'm called Donna, now."Her eyes lit up and smile lines creased her face. "Of course! You'rethe one who rescued the girl on the cliff. Wonderful. I saw it on thevid. But you know that doesn't change anything, Donna. We simply can'tallow a man on Sappho."I brought out the disk and dangled it before her. "This. You maneuvered yourself down to the ground and tried jumpingup, finding yourself in a terrifying moment of darkness passing throughthe ceiling, emerging from the floor of the apartment above like aghostly cockroach. An overweight man was sitting there on his couch,munching away at a takeaway and staring straight at you. You flinchedinvoluntarily, moving to cover up your private parts while he continuedstaring vacantly. After a terrifying moment of embarrassment for you andrelative nothingness. I was still very tired and I was certain nothing else out of the ordinary would happen tonight so I could at least get a few hours sleep and then test Helga’s theory about vampires living in full daylight. The only thing that bothered me was that I hadn’t fed at least not in the sense Helga meant still I was determined to feed off this chick when I woke up and that, even if she was still asleep. Anyway, I was dosing off and I wasn’t going to worry about that now.I’d gone back to sleep and was.