The pounding water massages the length of our bodies, jarring muscles into releasing their tension. We emerge in a small cave, immersed in the tinny h...ssing of the curtain of water separating us from the outside world. You slide effortlessly up to a mossy ledge and I slide up alongside you, facing one another on our sides, our bodies carving a dual groove into the downy moss. I start to ask your name, but choose not to break the silence. I will learn what you offer now, then learn more later …. “It’s a whole god damn new dimension.”“You’ve been in a nightmare dimension before,” Eric said.“Yeah but, this is, like ... there’s an entire city here! That gargoyle dude’s nightmare chamber was just a big, empty castle. I mean, my god!” She pointed up at the night sky, and the chaos of colors it held.Natasha nodded. “True. Here it’s ... s-so alive. There’s a lot g-going on.”Art started walking first, in the direction of Devil’s Corner, and the rest followed. “That’s just here. In most places. Satisfied, with the arrangement, Ed started to eat.After the first bite of food, he realized how hungry he was. In the morning, he had been so nervous that he couldn’t eat much of a breakfast. Lunch had been worse and he had skipped that altogether. He spent the next fifteen minutes eating.He was finishing a taco when Kim entered the room. She came over to Ed and, after kissing him, said, “Hello, Ed. Congratulations.”Happy that she could make it, Ed smiled at her. Kelly and Beth waved and. She beams at me, panting eagerly. "Fuck... !" she moans."Soon," I tell her.Her laugh is cut off as I plant my lips back on hers. My left hand weaves through her hair, holding her face against mine; meanwhile, my right hand slowly, quietly opens the drawer of the side table. I pull out a prepared coil of rope and bloody-red ball gag.Careful not to let the items contact her flesh, I start rubbing my hands down her arms. I pull a little, massage a little, send a dozen little signals of body.