He loses his mind.”Donna threw her hands up at Bren.“My Father, my mother, Heima and our two children were murdered by raiders.” He hung his hea.... “That’s the day I found out I can’t die,” Bren whispered. “One of them stabbed me in the heart. I woke up to find my whole family dead.” He sat on the bed and covered his face. He looked up. “Would you like to see a painting of them? I made it about a hundred years after their death. May I share it with you, please?”“H ... how old are you?”“Are you. I kept the smalltalk going and asked Xander whether he wanted another cup of coffee."Alright, then," he said, "but let me at least get it. You've done plenty already."With him in the kitchen, I had a great window to go slighty further. I pulled my top from under me and folded the lower side up, exposing part of my belly. Then I lowered my shorts some more and twisted it a tiny little bit. If I could feel something between my leg and the shorts, he sure should be able to see it - I just had no. You’ve already set yourself up for failure. You’ve established, perhaps inadvertently, a pre-sexual relationship. Maybe you’ll be able to keep it where it is, but the tension will make it difficult, if not impossible to keep it to a friendship. Either you’ll end up as lovers or you’ll stop seeing each other.”“I messed up worse than I thought.”“This was your first real attempt at such a thing in a long time, if not forever?”“Yes.”“So learn from it, Steve. You won’t be fully emotionally healthy. Just after Wendy had left, the phone rang. It was Fran. I could tell right away that she had recovered her poise after her astonishment the previous night. In fact, she thanked me for the demonstration: "It was very impressive." She also brought me up to date on last night's developments after I left. At about eleven o'clock, Manlio had rung to find out what had happened to Gabriella."I tried to stall him," she explained, "because Gabriella was still a bit, well, you know — " Dazed?" I.