As I open it, I see Tony with his wife Dana. They are both in bathing suits and as they walk in, they don’t say a word. Tony looks at my naked wife,...smiles and goes over to our luggage and starts going threw it. Finally, he pulls out a one piece red bathing suit that, when it got wet, you could see threw it. As he was doing that, Dana goes out on the balcony and lays down. Tony now goes over to the bed and starts to wake my naked wife, “Get up and put this on.” As Sherry gets up, Tony commands. We're dying to hear about your first date."If it was embarrassing enough to have experienced the events of thenight before, it was a hundred times more recounting them in detail tomy wife and her lover. But they insisted on hearing every mortifyingdetail."So," Diana giggled, "tell us. Are you still a virgin or what?"I must have blushed every shade of red in existence when she told me toturn around, bend forward, and pull down my shorts and thong panties.Both of them burst into gales of laughter. They, Sam corrected in his mind, had been caught.He was now trying to pry the clamp open but it did not budge, nor give way. Sam noticed sigils, symbols and drawings, formulas and scripts like some of the stuff he had been dreaming when the Trader left him a few moments peace of mind.Wards. The clamp was warded. The Exchequer said so as well, only with a terribly oversized grin:"Wards. I wouldn't waste any more vitality on that." On what?" Escape," said the Exchequer as all three of them they. Like Isaid, I wouldn't backstab my friends, not even for something thisimportant. I definitely wouldn't let some stupid moral code--as shakyas it is--put them in danger if I didn't think they could handlethemselves.As for myself--well, normally I wouldn't be too worried. I haven't hadto in years but I can make myself disappear if necessary. It's one ofthe few benefits of a messed up childhood: you learn to take care ofyourself. This is different, though. This is... you know, Steele. I'verubbed.