" He bent down and examined Jim's bonds, grunted with satisfaction. "You and I are going into the bedroom for a little while right now. It's fun-and-g...mes time."Julie glanced involuntarily at Jim. His eyes were dead. They gave her the creeps. She had never seen eyes quite like them before, and she thought that the absence of any emotion at all was more frightening than it would have been if Jim had been looking at Pete with flashing rage. She thought that it was good that Jim was tied now,. Richard wasn't sure if he ever fell in love with Arlene, but he had been at least close. Things progressed moderately due to the distance and lack of privacy. They talked of music easily. They were such different players, so every dinner was an exploration of how the other was approaching their latest piece. There was little overlap in repertoire between them, since Richard's bold and technical style was a world apart from Arlene's more sensitive and loose playing. But that was the attraction.. Now it was 400 lines. “Oh, dear,” she cried, as I was writing the 152nd line, “my stockings are falling down. I can’t pull them up without showing a good deal of my bare thighs. You promise you won’t look, don’t you?” Well, you get the idea. By the time I reached the 231st line, I had accumulated enough detention to last me well beyond the heat death of the universe. “Miss,” I pointed out, “it would take me 3,400,389,000,111 millenia to do that number of lines.” All right so the number was a. "Who are you?" May yelled at him, amazed to find that she still had the power of speech."Allow me to introduce myself. I am the Absorber, a.k.a. Zorack T. Dragon. As my title suggests, I can take in any superpower ever created. Even," he paused, "the power to bring anything from the images to life, complete with powers. And you, Spider-Girl, are from another dimension, a comic book, to be precise."Overwhelmed at this thought, May stayed motionless, and then spoke again."So, are you going to.