Whose blood?I didn't know.All at once I opened my eyes and everything swam into focus.People peered down at me. I was on the floor of strange room, fi...led with strangers."You finally decided to show up, but just HAD to make an entrance, huh??" Hello, Joseph. I'm pleased to see you, too." At least my sense of humor was still intact.When I turned my head I saw what had to be my hosts. I started to stand up, but made it only a little ways, before I felt the floor rushing up to meet me.The gentlest. Her mouth went into an “O” as the shock of his presence registered.Bobby simply turned around, to face the door.He winced, as he heard the needle scrape across the LP on the turntable, in one corner, and it was suddenly silent.“I was afraid you’d fallen,” he said. “I knocked, but you couldn’t hear me.”“It’s okay,” she gasped. “Let me get something on.”“I can just leave,” he said.“No, it’s okay, really,” she said. “You said you’d be back ... I just didn’t think it would be this soon.”“My other. Susan was indeed beautiful. Even sexy. She wondered how she had not noticed before..."No!" Debby covered her eyes with her hand, allowing her to turn her head away. She curled her free hand into a fist and slammed it against a hand rest of the chair. Slowly, the Darkness retreated from her mind, as well as her illicit thoughts. Utter revulsion came in its wake.Melissa looked only mildly surprised that Debby had shielded against her. She felt she could get through it if she concentrated hard. He couldn't help but laugh."You find this funny?" Eslada asked brusquely as she slapped Jorgarn on the arm. "If not for a bit of happenstance, your father would be dead and the Princess would be in Pietro's hands."Jorgarn shook his head."It never would have happened that way, Lady Eslada," he said. "Her Knight Protector would have been more than a match for anyone Pietro dispatched." Unless he was in on it," she seethed."He isn't," Jorgarn said. "On that I can swear an oath." And who is this.