"You all right?" Nick said and startled me from out of my daydream. Nick and Holly were standing there looking at me. I just smiled at them. They wer... both naked and clean. Nick, his arm slung over Holly's shoulder, lead her into the bedroom. I followed them. It was like some sort of solemn ceremony about to occur. I watched in a quite envy as Nick slipped his hand down Holly's smooth back and fondled her buttocks, his fingers moving into the diividing cleft. Holly exhaled a little sigh. I. There she would be protected and cared for.?Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and life returned to normal.The woman remains nearly comatose but for those evenings when a new moon rises.It be then that you find her on hands and kneespressing back against an ethereal lover that only she can see. The followingmorning will find her as unresponsive as ever; but with fresh bruises and abrasions.The psychiatric professionals assure us these are only the product of her vividimagination.?The old man. " Oh, it's OK Mike, I really don't mind." When they got settled in their room Rosa took Mike down to the gift store and they quickly found a nice set of Docker's and a golf shirt. She paid for both items and they went back to their room.Rosa piled all the packages on the bed. "Let's get cleaned up and then we can hit that steak house across the street." You want the bathroom first?" Mike asked."No, you go ahead Mike; women always take longer to get ready."Rosa was unpacking when she saw the. "So the bastards think they can dictate terms to me," I snarled in response to what Sydney White had told me. "Well they can't and you can pass that on to them and anyone else interested in joining the consortium. There is only one person in charge here and that is me. If they don't like it then they can stick to doing things the old way and when all their viewers move over to watching what we have to offer them and they go out of business, then it will be on their heads and not ours. As for.