"And, you're saying that you liked it?" "Yes!" Karen was indignant. "As much as I hate to say this, Gabriella, I liked it a lot!" "And, it felt like i... was actually happening?" "Oh, yeah! As farfetched and perverted as these dreams of mine are, they are very intense. I mean, when I wake up, I actually have a hard time separating false from true. That's to say that these dreams that I've been having are so vivid that they almost seem real." "So..." Gabriella sought clarification, "you had a. One night I can recall distinctly. It was towards the end of the summer and I was staying with Kate and her family at the shore house for the weekend. Kate and I were in a spare room watching TV. We had shared a pizza and were tired from the food and summer heat. We had fun as we fed each other pizza and I was captivated as the cheese formed a string from the slice to those luscious lips. It was a rather joyous time, but exhaustion took it's toll and we were soon asleep in each other's arms. " She went in measured steps across the room and took Sheena's shapely, warm, black hand. "So pleased to meet you, Sheena."She knew Sara would expect her to be jealous, and touchy, and overly sensitive about this meeting, and so she did her best to be the opposite. You're not catching me in your little sly traps, Sara Paige, she thought. Why would you invite me over when she's here?Nevertheless, she felt mighty uneasy. Two things nettled her. One, she could not help feeling that they had cooked. In the year 1917, an accident in an allied ship around the pacific islands resulted in its entire crew being lost to the sea. Yet a small group of 15 survivors, men and women from different countries, made it to an uninhabited island in what is now known to be Japanese territory.They were stranded, tired, hungry and desperate. They survived for three days before finding shelter in the only building in the entire island: a shrine to a deity called Ragaraja at the top of a mountain that sat in.