Let’s celebrate, have dinner and find a nice hotel room.”“I’m sorry, Allen. It’s not a good time. Somehow, I don’t feel I should be celebr...ting the death of what was once the best thing in my life. Am I doing the right thing, Allen?”“You know you are, Baby. We can’t have a relationship with your ball and chain of fifteen years hanging around. Do I need to tell him how it’s going to be from now on and to stay away from you? That won’t be a problem for me.”“Leave Jim alone, Allen. I broke his. When they came to it soon becameclear that wasn't all it had done, that the boys had swapped bodieswith the girls."Do you remember your line?" Simon asked, bringing her back to thepresent."Of course I do," she said. "It would be pretty difficult to forget'I'm not a member of Duran Duran', even for me." Then as long as no ancient magical artifacts from the Far East havefound their way into this shoot we're good to go."Ah, magic. Quite apart from the body swap itself, *how* it cameabout had. Neither of us had learnt her last name, but we were sure it was the same woman.I learnt that Phil had a stepfather like me and we wondered if the similarities in our looks meant we were related. Phil had grinned at me and said he was happy to have me as his bro, so brothers we considered ourselves. Several people had already mistaken us for brothers, and even Robert said that we looked like fraternal twins.We learned we had similarities and differences. We wondered at why the different gems,. She watched him ascend the stairs and exit out the cellar door. Now for the Captive, groaning on the far side of the chamber. She picked up a candelabrum and went over to meet the flesh.The Captive was secured to a wooden St Andrew’s cross attached to the far wall, standing on the balls of his feet and facing frontwards in an x shaped position as leather wrist and ankle restraints dug into his meat, moaning softly and rendered mute by a ball gag the Servant had tightened into place. He was an.