" Then she said, "Be careful what you promise, because I'll hold you to everything!" I said, "Agreed, what would you like me to do?" "I want you to la... down on your back, on the ground." Lila said, then she continued " Then I want you to open your mouth as wide as you can." I lay down and open my mouth and she stepped over me, facing my feet. She took off her panties and put one foot on either side of my head. As she squatted down on my face, she said, "I want you to swallow everything I give. The feyhound’s form didn’t have muscles. The branches that wove its body into a wicker form didn’t need to rest. It had no heart that had to labor. Nothing but my will kept it moving.And I would save my family.I raced down the road dark as fast as a horse. As fast as the wind. The stars blazed clear above me, wheeling across the sky, the crescent moon rising towards a zenith. I hardly noticed because I dwelt in my fear. It squeezed my brain, compressing it. Terrors whipped at me to keep. Cyn sniffed and said, ‘No you didn’t do anything wrong, I did. Something has happened at work and I should have told you about it. My only excuse is that I wanted to handle it myself.’ Now I was worried. Cyn was a fighter and never let anything or anyone get the best of her. ‘Okay, you’ve got my attention, tell me what’s happened,’ I requested strongly, actually it was more like an order. She told me that when she got the last promotion she got a new boss, Tony Johnson. After two or three weeks. The house was deadly quiet and I went about my business silently as well. Hiding the PowerBook was easy, making sure that it could run continuously, and undetected, took some thinking about. The solution to the problem was rather clever, if I say so myself. With Elise being ignorant about anything technical I set up my old Mac in full view. She would not notice the difference. This setup allowed me to put the PowerBook inside the large cabinet housing my bookplate collection, well hidden behind.