Something's come up." He looked back and forth between us, at two people grinning in anticipation and oozing sex. He was obviously going through some ...f the same thoughts that I had just moments earlier."Uh, Dave....I'm really sorry, but I'm going to go with Brenda here. I hope you don't mind. Why don't you just stay here with these guys?" I felt a little bad about it, but this was certainly well within the "guy code". Besides, I couldn't count the number of times that David had blown me off to. The new princess found his willingness to follow orders delightful andtook great pleasure in giving him endless belittling tasks. The biglumbering slave grew wet with sweat as he toiled in the sun, wishing hehad never even seen the hawk statuette."Would you like to hear something amusing slave?" asked the princess."Yes your highness; if it pleases you," replied Raul."Have you noticed that I don't feel sick anymore?"He looked at her, perplexed."I simply told the statue I did not wish to feel. .. I mean I knew that you were okay withher, but... I don't know Rachel... I was just afraid okay... I know itdoesn't make any sense..."She hugged me again and said, "I'm sorry that you thought we'd mistreatyou..."I told her, "It's not that Rach... I mean... My entire life... Everytime something starts going good for me... a huge but happens..." Shelooked at me quizzically, so I continued, "I mean I was doing good afew years ago... I had great grades, I was excelling in sports... I hadso many. .." hetrailed off."After what?" You really don't remember?" He looked at me, obviously not believing."Remember what?" I asked."What she looked like, before?"I responded with puzzled silence."I don't know how to tell you this, uh, man," he fumbled, seeming unsureof the description, "but after we found that thing, she used it tochange herself. To make herself, uh... better looking. And I think sheused it to make you forget that she'd ever looked any different. Sothen, she turns herself into.