. BIRT ... AM ... Still visible on the frosting. The rest of those words were sloshing around somewhere in Jared’s stomach along with ten big slices...of pizza, lots of beer and that large bottle of wine he had consumed. Bits of chocolate cake where also spilling off the side of that table and down onto the floor. Those bits were scattered along the floor in amongst a few dozen beer cans. Those beer cans were all crunched in their middle and still had little droplets of their contents slowly. The bear charged at her. Once the bear stood up when close enough to do a downward slash with both of its claws, she gave a powerful right jab to the bear's abdomen, causing it to growl in pain and fall on its back. Before the bear could get up, two of her long strands of hair got longer and went towards the bear, surrounding the bear's neck and tightening. She choked the bear with her hair long enough until she felt it fall limb. Lilith retracted the hair and brought her ear close to the. "Just get out of the dress."Blushing at the man's vulgar language, Lynn observed that the older woman was wearing a dressing gown and cursed herself for not having had the brains to bring something like it herself. Here was no sign of anything resembling a slave girl costume, and she hated to make a fuss over what she was supposed to wear, so she took a deep breath, finished her drink to give her courage and then, unzipped the simple print dress she had worn, hanging it on a hook behind the. As a lover, he knew, he was perhaps too gentle and giving. He no longer expected to find a woman who could appreciate him for what he had to offer, though, and had grown used to bring alone. But he still dreamed and hoped and speculated. And he still liked to look. Paul opened the paper to the comics pages – his favorite part of the paper – and looked toward the front counter of the restaurant. He wondered if she would come in today. A young woman he had come to think of as ‘that pretty.