How about I pick up lunch and meet you at your place.’“Sorry hon, too dangerous. You can’t disguise your car.’ I wrote back.A few minutes late... I had a reply. ‘You can meet me in a public place. I can wear a disguise. We can pull through a drive in window, then go to your place.’‘Okay how is noon at the Food Lion on highway 1.’‘One pm is better.’ she sent in a text message.‘ok’ I replied.At quarter to one I said, “I’m going out to lunch. Call me if anything happens that I need to attend to. A sword, actually. Except it wasn’t straight or all that long, but bent and about the size of my upper arm. The other one disappeared into a tunnel that connected both platforms. I guess they had been hoping for a platform full of people to assault, after the bomb on the surface had started things off. Instead, they had to make do with whoever loitered, or rather cowered, on the platform right now. Which was us four, a middle-aged man in an army trench coat and a very inappropriate knitted. “Ah, the guest of honor had finally arrived,” de Sade stood and offered a graceful bow. “And just in time,” he added as a bell rang and everyone stood.Baroness Graveek strolled in through a door at the back of the hall. She wore a black, translucent drape from her shoulders that floated around her legs. The same diaphanous material billowed around her arms from wrist to shoulders. Thigh-high, black leather stiletto boots sheathed her long legs. A black leather corset magnified the deep. Waking the next morning, James got up, heading to the bathroom. He waswearing only his boxers as he stood in front of the mirror above thesink, brushing his teeth.As he looked over himself, he couldn't help but notice that his armmuscles and shoulders looked a little bulkier."Hey, at last the workin' out I've been doing is finally paying off!"Slightly strange as it had been two days since his last visit to thegym and they weren't like that yesterday.As he flexed his larger biceps, he noticed.