.. we should be there by ten."Margo fully expected a night of surprises.Even though they'd been the last to get showered, in the time-honored traditio... Harry and Eddy were the first to be ready. Harry was in a pair of dark blue chinos, with matching blazer and a cream shirt. Eddy was in a pair of black pinstripe slacks and a black dress shirt, his hair pulled tightly back into a ponytail. And as tradition dictated, they stood in the living room and waited patiently, or at least pretended to.In. And it explained why Ann kept looking into my eyes.As she did now when I looked at her."I ... it's beautiful, Ann."She seemed to relax when I said this, as if she had been holding her breath, but I had the feeling that she was waiting for something else."Barely beautiful enough for you," she responded after a few seconds and rounded the table to help me lock the chain around my neck.Her fingers were warm and soft on my skin when she pulled away my hair and they rested on my neck a tad longer. We just continued on with our sex lives as normal, and it didn't come up. It was probably about a week or two later when I woke up one morning after having a vague dream about Sam and her best friend Noreen, who now lived across the country. It was clearly a sex dream of some kind, but I couldn't really remember. But when Sam asked how my night was, I said, "Good. Had a little dream about you and Noreen..." And she sort of arched her eyes and said, "Really? What was it?" "Tell you later. Spittle was dripping from the side of his mouth his eyes barely open. Along his spine were twelve nodes each with a wire sprouting from them. They connected to a thicker black conduit. This snaked up to the ceiling where it disappeared rather like one of the ships tentacle arms. His back was bruised from the surgery his limbs now out of his control. The room was filled with the disembodied voice of the Queen."We have such delights to show you Jed. Such experiences to savour down the long eons.