‘How are you finding life north of Brisbane Mary?’ ‘It’s okay.’ ‘But not better than life down here?’ Mary pushed her plate away. ‘I t...ought it would be, likely virtually being in paradise with rain, lots of rain, tropical birds, plenty of things to do and not even a bucket of wind-blown dust in sight.’ ‘But you realized you were homesick, and coming back has confirmed that?’ ‘Yes Gloria.’ ‘And marriage appeared the quick way back in.’ Mary looked at Nath, fighting back tears. ‘Yes.’ ‘Jesus!’. She was more looking to have multiple orgasms than to find a man to marry and to give her a baby. A swinger’s, house party is where she could be herself. A swingers’, house party is where she could really let herself go, relax, and have a good, sexual time. A swingers’, house party is where she had the most fun. A swingers’, house party is where she had the bulk of her sexual relations. A swingers’, house party is where she met Mitch. * * * * * Reminiscent of the song, ‘Some Enchanted Evening,’. I need to measure only my mana, and if I eat or do anything to recover my physical strength, it will skew the results.”“Are you sure you want to do this? The more you describe it, the more dangerous this seems.”“It probably is dangerous, but I don’t know how my mana reserves compare to an average magic user my age, and this is fastest way to increase it. Now, don’t let go of my wrist and start counting as soon as I become invisible. If my heart stops or there are any signs that my health is. Finally he was able to form words. ‘There’s enough, Teddy. Enough for twenty lifetimes’ he stopped to take a ragged, sloppy breath and continued, ‘The trick, Teddy, is to live long enough to enjoy it.’ With that his hand relaxed and Theodora thought death had finally taken him. Straightening slightly she watched his chest. Suddenly the hand beckoned her close again as he drew his last, wet, wheezy breath. ‘Keep me in your heart, Teddy, keep me alive.’ The hand fell limp and she finally became.