It was the tightness around his waist that nagged him awake. Hewas groggy and still in a daze, his eyes wouldn't focus and he was havingtrouble movin... his arms and legs. He pulled at them and released only tohear a rustling swish and then felt himself swaying slightly as if he wasfloating in the air. He shook his head and tried to get up and movearound but he soon realized he was restrained! He tried to talk butinstantly realized he had also been gagged into complete silence!It was early. He spoke sporadically while lighting his pipe."Well your brother Julian has gained his leadership badge at cadet camp, so you won't be — puff- entirely unsupervised -puff- at Cherry Cottage. But the question is can he cope with your tantrums Ann?." Oh Quentin dear, soothed his wife Emily as she continued to knit in the old fireside chair, we've discussed all of this; Ann is growing up now, she more self controlled these days." Yes, those tantrums are behind me." pouted Ann. Then thrusting. "Maybe our Empress, but most importantly, they have visited the originaluniverse- the place where everything started," Mina clarified."Funny. I don't remember crossing any universal barriers," Jacki shookher head a few times."I don't either, Miss Cummins. It just seemed like a very exotic dream-with some ripped guy in it- to me," Yuuka added."He was handsome, wasn't he?" Jacki looked like she held some latentthoughts for our adversary of the time.I held back a giggle."Wasn't really my type, but. They were all about half my age, but they only saw the hot mature blonde in the sexy clothes. As they fooled around and joked with each other getting louder all the time, they eventually seemed to include me in the with them, as I was sitting near their table. One would make a smart mouth comment and one of them would look to me and make a comment, “He thinks he’s all that, doesn’t he?” presuming I was listening. I guess that I was because I began to enter in with them which got them more.