For a short time we remain motionless...each of us loving the sensations that you being inside me gives us. Then slowly I begin to grind against you. ...The water around us breaking with the movement of my body, splashing against our naked skin. You begin to walk to the side of the pool and press my back against the wall. Your hands still under my buttocks holding me steady, you begin to gently move inside me...slowly sliding in and out. The intensity increases and you bury your face in my. Threatening?" Iris was openly worried now, and James laughed lightly as he tried to ease her concerns."She said that you were of an age and a sense to be able to handle your own affairs ... but should I hurt you ... well then she said she might be tempted to interfere ... primarily with me, and the way that my limbs were attached – or something to that effect." Oh, James!" she stuttered with open horror. "I am so sorry ... she assured me that her meeting with you was purely business..." Oh I. .’ I began, cautiously, ‘I overheard you and Catherine talking this morning.’ ‘I figured..’ was her reply. ‘If you ever want to talk – about your husband, or.. anything – I’m here. And, hey, I might even have some insight into the male pysche.’ I laughed as I delivered the last part of this, trying to lighten it up a little. ‘Thanks.’ She smiled. ‘I’ll keep that in mind.’ With that she walked away, leaving my heart racing. I made my copies and returned to my desk, a little dejected. I wasn’t. A shudder waxed into uncontrollable shivers."Bemariq..." I whined.My voice startled my husband. He embraced me. "I felt it too. A presencefilling the room. It's gone now, though."That wasn't true, but the welling affection for my husband overpowered mydismay. The veneration of the god dissipated into mild vertigo."What is this?" I whispered."Trickery of the past, nothing more. A ghost, an echo of a dead glory.This must have been what made the soldiers at Radhas lose their wits."Of course I had.