He had released the grip of his blaster the second he had gotten free of the webbing, but he still felt like he had been turned into a Venusian microw...ve burrito. Weakly, Jake forced himself up to his hands and knees, shaking his head as his wobbly nerves tried to recover from the staggering combination of intense pleasure and horrible anguish they had just been put through. Remembering the source of that pleasure, Jake pushed himself back until he could look up into the webs overhead. Acharia. She looked at the griddles and the frypans."Jón we talked about me selling some of your things." I was waiting for you to bring this up." How can I start this?" I mentioned before that you are going to move around a lot." Julian seemed to understand. "If you were to say, live in Rome temporarily you could have someone take care of your businesses there. You can handle either "Woden's Own" or "Thor's Hammer" for the Italian peninsula." You will get the richest area of the empire." Why are the. So I will ask you one last time- do you accept?" I gulped, weighing up who scared me more out of MissStevens or Jackson Lyons. Whilst Lyons won on the count that he mightstraight-up murder me, Miss Stevens was definitely the most terrifyingpresence. Even so, no matter what this mysterious option of hers was, ithad to be preferable to dying - right?"I accept," I whimpered. Miss Stevens nodded at the guards, who sighedbut dutifully left the room."Lie down on the sofa, face up," Miss Stevens. "Holy shit! That's it!"She ran to the nearest bedroom - which happened to be Cindy's - andshouted for everyone to gather there. Of course, that turned out to justbe Jenna and I. After a quick glance at Jenna's cross-dressed male bodyshe pointed excitedly at the bunk beds."I have a theory! Loren's reference to the TV made it all click. I thinkthat the bunk beds are a transceiver! But instead of sending radio-wavesor Wi-fi it can send souls, minds, and commands from Whoever is runningthis show..