” She said with a small smile, “Mostly as a slave though. Changed a few years ago.”“How?” “A small collection of non-humans bought me and ...reed me. They’ve been gathering influence and power across the city through this and other means, their leader-”“Abbacha’ak?” Lace interjected and Maria looked surprised.“Yeah, I thought you just arrived at the city today?”Lace smiled a little, “We did, I went to the palace to meet a contact of mine, I thought I’d meet the Patrician too but he was busy.”“Ahh. On each shelf were transparent half-tubes each about two meters long and a meter in diameter. Moving to one of the shelves the two pilots could see that the closest half-tube contained the remains of a half dead humanoid being. From what they could see the remains appeared to be human or similar to humans.Franklin and Barnes walked down the passageway between the two shelves, past tube after tube containing long decayed remains. The two pilots were rapidly coming to the conclusion they had. She was wearing a bikini bottom, and carrying a towel."Let's go girl!" Said Lacy"One sec, I need to find my top" replied LaurenLauren found her top and came around the corner...Lacy was right behind her. Lauren wearing a bright yellow bikini with white polka dots on it. She was smoking hot. "We're going to tan...u wanna come?" Asked Lauren"Sure, let me grab some shorts" I repliedI put on some shorts and met the girls outside. They were putting lotion on each other, and just talking about normal. ”OK, Aunty,” I said submissively and stood at a distance just watching her prepare the meal.Then as we ate dinner we didn’t talk much. After dinner I helped her with the dishes and then I went to my room. As I lay there the rainy weather that had persisted all afternoon and evening developed into an intense storm, The the rain would force its way inside the room, and then the power went off plunging the whole house into darkness. It was 11.30pm and there was lightning was flashing constantly.