I can't afford that. But I can't afford to let her come back to my house to fuck an endless parade of my students, either. But, once again, she's way ...head of me. She said that she's arranged to sublet a small two-room apartment but she can't take possession for two more weeks. She showed me the lease. I can afford it. Barely. But I have to do something with her in the interim. Tomorrow, I'm going to take her to the Day's Inn at the edge of town and set her up there. I've found Day's Inns to be. Perhaps the hag who’d locked her away had foreseen a moment such as this… Midway to our apartments, in a poorly lit ally, my thoughts were interrupted by a voice from my past. “You stole something from us, fish-girl.” I tensed, recognizing the voice instantly as one I had been dreading for some time. That they’d caught up with us was no surprise, only that it had taken them so long. My former ‘employers’ or rather, my owners, had a vested interest in both Rapunzel and me. “She never. "I am sorry about the attack, we detected the worm hole opening, we couldn't be sure what would come through."I still said nothing, which didn't seem to bother her."We dispatched the fighter and the battleships just incase, thats an interesting little ship you have, almost undetectable." She said as she injected something else into my arm."Don't worry that is just to counter act the stunning device the spider ships use." She said.She went over to a console to type something in."We will be. She stopped offering to her husband when she stopped having respect for him. With the mug between her cupped hands Marjorie contemplated the loss of her only child.Etta strolled into town; just a half mile walk. The town was everything she remembered. Not much had changed in the six months she had been away. Finding the local sports bar she wandered in. The atmosphere was thick with cigarette smoke, the smell of stale beer and loud music. This place had been the start of her metamorphosis. When.