I know she likes baseball, so maybe I’ll suggest we take in a game together, or something like thatBut that’s not what I want to tell you about. I...was twenty-four when this started. I have a sister two years older and a brother who is nine years younger, so he and I have never been close. I always considered Mason more of a pest than anything else. My sister Julia had been married to Taylor for six years and he was now twenty-eight. He wasn’t particularly good-looking, but he was affable.. Arlade had choreographed his initial salvo to be as awe-inspiring and demoralizing as possible. It was always better to keep his prey shaking in their boots; perhaps some few would choose to run away. He didn’t like the idea of letting any live but he was resigned to it. He had enough troops to storm the building or circle the town, but not both.Qualan was up first. He nodded to her and waited as she began pulling in the eldritch energy; energy he could feel but not use. He turned away as she. I got in and drove to the supermarket. After shopping hurriedly (I wanted to get back before she woke up), I got back in the car and drove back. I opened the dashboard looking for a napkin to wipe my hands before I touched her fur covered driving wheel. I saw a piece of cloth and remembering the handkerchief from last night took it out to wipe my hands with it. It was not a handkerchief, it was a soft satin thong. I recognized the thong immediately. It was one that we bought for our tip to. We took the piss out of him as lads do, but he had a very sexy Indian girlfriend who he claimed to fuck regularly so we never suspected he was anything other than straight.One summers day I visited Nick as I was in the area. He was wearing shorts and was more serious than usual. I asked him what was wrong and he said he had split from his girlfriend. I said that was sad and that I had liked her (in fact I regularly wanked thinking about her!). I asked him why they had split and he said he had.