"I don't mean that you should haveanother affair as yourself, even to punish yourself. I mean, you couldhave an affair for me. As me. Pretending to...be me. As my surrogate.My proxy. My representative. As me by mutual consent. You likebedding down with strangers. I don't. But you can pretend to be mebedding down with a stranger. That would fix things."I stared at her. She was off the wall, but she thought she was makingsense."Think about it. You can be my hero, my knight in shining. When I drove into the parking lot of Ed's converted service station, my hair, if it had been longer, would have been a rat's nest, and my face looked like that of a corpse, but I was on time. It was a good thing too, since Michael drove in right behind me."There you are, I was beginning to worry," I said, as I climbed down from the van."Right," he said, with a sarcastic smile. "It's a little chilly this morning. Any chance I can get you to make some coffee while I do this?" I am going to make. ." She then got closer to Chloe and whispered, "You area she-male right?" with a menacing grin. Chloe stammered, "I don't knowwhat that means.... I can assure I am all girl," as she did a twirlaround showing Renee her quite female figure. "Oh you can drop that actright now, it's been quite annoying," Renee replied with a huff. "Notsure what you mean, Renee...." Chloe muttered back with unease, beforeresuming, "Listen, you, if you're not careful, I can let it slip and....goodbye you socially. ” He sighed, and shifted around on the throne for a moment, gargantuan size causing the stones to rub and creak, before he went completely still once again, except for his mouth.Jennifer raised her hand slightly. “Is there no way to feed more safely?”“The gargoyle,” Sándor said, voice rumbling with something that sounded almost like anger, deep, rumbling, and raspy, “and any Begotten with predatory hungers, must hunt. I feed on the fear of those that know they are being hunted. The fear can.