”“So, the facts that you’re reporting in such a honey-coated manner are that some eight or nine thousand of our people have been killed, and abo...t the same number of our fighters, many in the most horrifying manner that Sylvan minds can devise. Zarkog has lost about twenty-three thousand. I assume about ten times as many have been wounded on both sides, and about half of those seriously?”“You assume correctly.”There was a pause.“And?” Mark prompted.“Pardon me?”“You’re going to have to adjust. She had no idea that he was seeing anyone else, much less fucking someone else. Akemi, the young, beautiful wife of an inattentive husband, had run and hid in the bathroom after Jeanine had discovered them having sex in the living room. More embarrassing to the young Japanese girl was that they had been seen having anal sex, which magnified the issue substantially. Akemi would not even unlock the door to the bathroom for an hour after Jeanine had gone. Akemi, over the course of their. ‘I don’t know,’ said Katie, also looking much like a huntress, ‘Do you think he’d survive two extremely horny women working on him at the same time?’ ‘Good point,’ said Gloria, ‘What do you think, Anthony? It’s your call.’ Anthony jumped from his chair with his back ramrod straight. As his massive erection bobbed in the air he said, ‘We who are about to die salute you.’ Both women laughed. Then Gloria said, ‘I was going to go easy on him. But, after a joke like that…’ ‘…he deserves no mercy,’. ’ He gave me a quizzical look. Funny, but after all that thinking, musing, pontificating, and fretting about the elixir, I found myself having a hard time voicing the ‘peculiarities’ I had experienced now that the expert was in front of me. Worse, as I started to explain my fears aloud and in the full light of day, I thought they sounded ridiculous in the extreme. When I finished with my explanations, I really felt like a jerk when I saw the look of befuddlement unfold across Beetlesmith’s.