”“Well, typically, I’d have twenty to thirty guests. Everyone brought food and we’d have a regular feast. I especially looked forward to Mary�...�s chocolate covered brittle. Whatever it was she did when she made it, it was the one sweet that I looked forward to every year. Before it was gone, I tried to squirrel away half a dozen pieces to eat later.”“I didn’t know you like sweets!”“Mostly, I just like sweet women.”“What did you serve?”“I changed it up each year. One year I wrapped a ham in pastry. She certainly wasn't traumatized by the event. Was she raped?You bet! And David, bless his wicked soul, knows it was rape, too. What was his toast? Yes. "To a repentant, reformed psychic rapist." What bothered her was his hesitation when she'd asked him if he'd finger fucked anyone else. He'd said no, but there was some guilt there. My darling brother wears his emotions on his sleeve."How about it, Darla?" she asked her image. "Should I call it even and call a truce?" She grinned. "Yeah, that's. On the way home Carol acted nervous and almost upset. As we walked into the house she took her things and tried to take the box that John had given me too. I stopped her and took it away from her grasping hands."Carol, what in the hell has got into you? You are acting strange as hell. What is the problem?"She burst into tears and ran away. She went into our bedroom and threw herself on the bed face down. Her sobs were tearing me apart. I knew now that something had happened on her trip. I. SABRE pilot to Artemis command. Incursion alert. I’m coming in. Emergency pilot retrieval, dimensional fold, activate!” Matt smiled and gave a thumbs-up as he vanished.The two creatures, both of them the cyborg version of the large twenty-foot adversaries, marched through the forest towards town, one behind the other. The air in front of them shimmered, and without warning Panther appeared, his axe already swinging through the air over his head. The green plasma-lit edge came down hard on the.