I lifted her up and carried here to her porch, never letting her touch the ground, just being romantic. I sat down with her on her porch swing and ask...d what the big suprise was. She replied: "My parents are out of town. They went to see my aunt, and I faked being sick so I could stay home. Now, I'm going to be alll alone." At this point she started nibbling on my ears, just they way I liked. "Well then babe, I can't let you stay here all by yourself. I'll give my parents a call, and tell them. "There seemed to be a strobe of the lighting... a temporary brightness, butnothing changed. I was still sitting naked on in this plain white room."Hello?" I asked, concerned something had gone wrong."It's fine babe, just calibrating the interface," Hetty said. "How do youfeel?" she asked."Well, it's a little bleak. Not like the places you usually send me. Kindof stark and boring," I said. "But I feel fine." Well let me see if I can help with that," she said. Suddenly the wallsstarted to recede. Eyes flying open, Sarah took a step back, breaking the physical contact, though her body still throbbed, mouth falling open. Talera had shifted fully into her natural form, and now stood, a faint smirk on her pale features. Lifting the giant wings, she beat them once very slowly, filling the entire room with the most seductive scent, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, rain. Sarah felt her blood, already at a high simmer, flash to steam. With a cry, she came, sagging to the bed, gasping for breath. In. They both smiled as I came in."Recuperated yet?" Yann leered at me."Don't you have a boyfriend?" I asked."Dumped him right before I had lunch." Right." This was looking less and less like heatstroke. "Ok. Look. I've had time to reconsider this harem thing and -" And, yes, from outside it's going to look a little suspicious." Ivan interjected. "That's why we're going to be very careful about who we let in." And they have to be here for the long haul." Yann agreed. "I don't think anyone should be.