Mindblind took one, and tossed Raven the other as soon as he fished it out of the man’s pocket. As he stood, Yani walked over and bent down in his p...ace. “What are you doing?” Raven asked her. “Well, I assume that we’ll be leaving at some point. I’m not walking through the brush and brambles, naked and barefoot.” Raven shrugged. “Make yourself useful and find anything that isn’t completely blood-soaked for the others while we let them out, then.” “I’ll do my best, but it’s hardly going to be an. ..“Go ahead, dear. Andrew will go with you,” Angela said. “You have to take a shower with soap, it’s the rule here.”Tom frowned. “Um. I changed my mind. I don’t want to go in the water.”Andrew looked at his anxious brother. “It’s okay, trooper, they probably have shower stalls for privacy. I’ll be with you and watch out for you.”He reached his hand out and Tom reluctantly took it; then they walked to the locker room. Entering the room, Tom looked around. One half of the room had small lockers. "I've got a new video I want to preview with you before we go," heoffered. "I think you will like it. This late on a Friday afternoon, wewill have the screening room all to ourselves."Hmmm; watch porn with a notorious skirt-chaser, just the two of us, beforewe go out for drinks - just to get in the mood. Sure, that's my idea of agood time... NOT! I wished he hadn't been so ham-handed about it. I wasflattered by his show of attention - maybe even a little tempted. Yet, Iwasn't going to betray. As long as the book didn't leave the store and it wasn't the last copy we had, Chloe let me borrow books off the shelves at my leisure. Usually I borrowed a novel from the romance section to get inspiration for my own book, but this morning there was only one book in the whole store I had any interest in. I sat down in my chair and flipped the tome to the front cover. Inside was an inscription that looked like it wasn't written in ink, but as if it was burned onto the page."To those who play.