Slowly, her expression dimmed. First her eyes changed, with the light diminishing like someone inching down the dimmer on a ceiling chandelier. Then, ...ome slight change in the musculature around the lips as if trying to hold the smile in place but losing the enthusiasm for it, making it fake. Finally, the loss of the smile altogether, the shifting of the shoulders, tilt of the head, the little indications she felt rebuffed. She pulled her hand away from me and looked away for a moment before. But would Carol think he didn’t love her any more if he admittedhis own desire for her to be with another man? She had said she wanted towatch him make love with Alex, that blew his mind. What happened to his‘proper’ little wife? The idea of his wife making love with anotherwoman… damn that sounded hot but so unlike Carol… or was it? Sinceshe said she wanted him to make love to Alex does that mean Carol would beOK with his having Janette too? Did she already. He fell for it and told me to throw a rope over the beam andpull him onto his tip toes. I did as he said using his rightwrist and once he was on his toes knotted it off. His leftarm hung at his side as he twisted and turned still braggingabout what a safe secure tie this was and then asked me tountie him and admit that he was indeed no longer an apprenticemaster in that he had taught me something. I pretended not to hear as I slung another rope over the beamabout a meter away to the left and. Daturn was wearing a shimmery gown that appeared to be made of liquiddiamonds, and looked like a smarter version of May-Lynn. She smelled ofexpensive perfume and fine wine."How may I help you, officers?", she said in a silky smooth voice. Iwas having a bit of trouble not drooling. Fortunately, Sanderson ismade of sterner stuff."We're investigating a report of illegal reality distortion. May wecome in?" Why, certainly," Daturn said musically. "I have nothing to hide."She was lying, of course..