We took turns behind the bar serving each other so that our new found friends – Jack and Emma – would feel a little more relaxed and less like the...servants their job descriptions made them out to be. Jack, an elder woodsman, could just as easily have fit in at a biker bar as a hippy love fest. I was uncertain we were not actually in San Francisco rather than Maine. And Emma was as tattooed and pierced as they come. A true punk goddess. But all of that slid into the background for me as the. I found myself hoping Leanne wouldn’t try and draw her into any kind of sexual activity. My powers may have come from the Devil, but that didn’t make me one, at least not yet. If I wasn’t careful it could.But then again, I could feel my powers growing stronger since sleeping with Yuki. I knew on some level that the Stones acted like batteries, or maybe boosters, to my power. The biggest question was, of course, if sex was required to access that power boost. Somehow I’d have to find out,. What?First man to ...what? ...Sorry, reception's horrible here ...hmm? Didyou just ask how my ...Ninja skills were?"***"Does insanity run in your family?"The words escaped her mouth before she could stop them. It smacked ofinsubordination to be so blunt with 'Mother Juneau,' the EleusianFoundation's all-powerful CEO. But then, she'd never been asked, well,what she'd just been asked to do."You forget yourself, Ms Lanthe!" June tisked a crooked index finger when Katherine started to. Patti was back from the second part of her lighthouse viewing vacation; after supper we spent several hours being brought up to date with photos and stories about the things she and Kate had done on this trip.It took nearly as long to fill her in on things that had happened here. I was glad she was back. I needed to stay to be part of whatever happened at the courthouse tomorrow morning. Patti could do the time entries and I could remotely approve them with my smarter than smart phone.The.