“I hope you understand what Crocdius seeks from you should you wish to leave this place.”“Hush, Lysis,” Vebri says laughing. “What she means...is the last one to come here didn’t fully understand what it took to leave. I have a feeling that it doesn’t matter to you though.”No, but it does me.“We are here because our magic allows for someone to take him,” the creature continues to explain.“Your magic?” the girl asks.And this is why you shouldn’t play with magic until you’ve learned. She had awakened in the midst of a mildly erotic dream – she and Marcus were sitting on the rug in front of a fireplace in some kind of lodge and the way he looked at her made her body tingle with the promise of erotic delights.As she became aware of her surroundings, she discovered she was alone in the bed and in the room. Suddenly her mommy alarms started going off. Where was Sarah? Where was Marcus? All pleasant dreams and the comfort of her surroundings were thrust aside as she sat up in. When Bimla came to work, she locked the door behind her, and asked how my back was. I was fine by then, but I moaned and groaned and said it still hurt. She said she would put the balm on me again. After work finished, she came to where I was lying, waiting for her, and she started off right away. This time again she asked me how much lower she should go, and I kept telling her to go lower and lower. She massaged and squeezed my bottom, but after a while she was breathing really deeply, as was. Peter had orginally been a Spanish maid named Juanita whose experienceswith the necklace had resulted in her assuming the role of Lord Peter. Theoriginal Lord Peter was now the 'new' Lord Peter's wife Juanita. They hadjust married following the murder of Catherine, Lord DeVries first wife(see Altered Fates story Lord's Prayer for details).Peter had been aware for some now, since the arrest of his wife's murderer,that the necklace had been recovered and that eventually it would bereturned to.