Which brings us back to the question of how I found myself in such a pitiful state in the first place? Well, the answer is Stupidity! That's how! My o...n stubborn, irrational stupidity! Because if it weren't for my own stupidity, I wouldn't have found myself exiled to the couch for six months, nursing a wounded knee, being horny as hell, and having one severely pissed off wife.And to make matters worse, every time I tried to apologize she would just walk away without even saying a word!Chapter. She steeled herself for the chilly air to kiss her bare breasts, but when she slipped off her bra, she no longer felt cold. What’s more, the clouds over her mood felt as if they had thinned – just a little. Unwilling to risk losing the twin boons by contemplating them overmuch, she accepted them, changed into her pajamas, and crawled into bed.She drifted off almost immediately – warm and safe in the room where she’d grown up.**Crystal awakened wearing a smile so wide that she could feel the. “These gates are not two way?”“Only if the Holy Controllers use the appropriate chants, they can take you back.”“And what sort of convincing do you have in mind?”“Fanciful bribes of course, as it has been tradition. The Holy Controllers like expensive gifts.”Har-Hi grunted from the side.“At least they are open about it. I was certain even before he mentioned that they weren’t too interested in your kind of convincing, Captain.”“At least there is a way to get back. We stomp that ice when we get. He told me to come with him and have some drinks together. I started to be fed up with him and his drinks, but he was Boss and it's his house I lived in. So I had to drop all my dirty clothes from my hands and leave it be and joined Emeka as he had demanded. He had asked Pete to come over and there we sat, drinking some local drinks from the bottles that Emeka had brought with him. I remembered that we had drunk the same stuff at the party and it had fruity taste. Quite good and not too high in.