Now it looks like he may bleed to death. What have I done?’ Maria eyes filled with tears as she spoke. ‘Maria, you didn’t do this,’ Billy stat...d. ‘This was picked up last night. Emerson didn’t want anyone to know about it. It isn’t as bad as it seems. He’ll be fine.’ ‘How did he get this wound? Why shouldn’t anyone know about it? Is it something awful?’ Maria was getting over her guilt and becoming suspicious. Emerson groaned and opened his eyes. Looking around he saw the crowd gathered around. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the whack of virgin maiden,” I parried, murdering Shakespeare to get her more riled. SMACK, SMACK! She continued slapping my ass without missing a beat, but I couldn’t help reminding her: “You can smack my ass, and you can smack your lips, but you can’t smack your slap." And with that I turned over and grabbed the hot, hairy slip of the dripping slap between her thighs. My fingers savored her juices, glistening in the dark underbrush growing over her. There were several chaise lounges somewhat wider than what I knew of chaise lounges. I did see some tie down paraphernalia on the Chaise lounges. And there was another like a table. Like the ones ObGyn Dr's have in their offices for examination of patients. It also had the tie down paraphernalia. And then under a tree there was a "thing". Mandy saw my face of "What??" and she said "that is a fucking machine".There was another thing hanging from the branch of a big tree and Mandy said, "That. ‘Your kidding right? I mean, its obvious that this world is technologically dead because of its dependancy on magic.’ Josh said. ‘Then we’re just going to have to go to Earth.’ Susan said, looking up, ‘Hopefully we’re far enough in time that they at least have geiger counters and some short range sensing equipment.’ ‘To Earth? We’re at war with Earth, how do you expect to get there?’ Walt asked. ‘Fly.’ Susan said, ‘Right through the rift.’ ‘But doesn’t the rift open into outer space outside.