Looking around, I find myself in a grey void, filled with grey smoke. There is a comforting silence, and as I reach out and touch the smoke, a pleasan... tingle races through my hand. "I'd be careful if I were you. That smoke has a nasty habit of wiping souls clean."I find myself facing the speaker instantly. One moment, I was facing away from him. The next, I find myself seated at a table, with the smoke forming a perfect sphere around us. The man is colored entirely in grey scale, from his. The decision to obey him was completely hers. That was what made it so delicious. Of course it was not always so. She still would shake her head in disbelief when thinking about their first interaction. A napkin passed to her after a long lunch at the local Greek restaurant. She was with her then boyfriend and he was a late arrival. He sat opposite her and ate quietly. He didn't speak much, but it was clear he was taking in everything around him. 'Call me tomorrow at 6am' It said. A phone. " You are sitting in it. I traded it for this snow cat and a snowmobile. I got the snow cat and two snowmobiles. Then a certain game warden got himself one of the new snowmobiles." He smiled at the memory."Remind me not to do anything dumb around you," she told him."You already have," he told her. "So from now on be real careful around me." She was relieved he had a smile on his face. He was much more fearsome than Barry in many ways.Jesse drove along the edge of the old growth pine forest. It. He remembered that Dad had listenedto him and even gone over with him to look it over. On the way back hetold Bax that he should save his money. Number one he didn't want himdriving his own car until he was a senior and number two that raggedout wreck would spend more time being worked on than being driven for along time.Bax hadn't been too happy about it when he heard dad tell him that, butthe funny thing was now, as he slipped his shirt over the lacy bra hehad chosen in place of the sports.