" I looked over to her and gave her a weak smile. "Thanks," I said. Atleast she was trying. I didn't feel any more like a loser, but her effortsd...dn't really make me feel that much better, either. Beth poked her head back around the corner, leaning forward slightly. My eyes fell on her cleavage again. That made me feel a little better. "It'll be here in about 40 minutes. If we don't hear the door, come getus?" It took me a second to realize she was talking to me. "Will do." "Come. After all we don't want to make you a slut, yet." Corey agreed it was OK, and she led him to her makeup table, sitting himdown on the bench, and gave him the lipstick, which he began to apply ashe had seen his mother do it. He felt so much that he was a girl in themere act of putting on the lipstick, being framed there in the mirror,with his girlish arms and soft shoulders.He put on the blouse, and it fit perfectly, and Lynn provided him with aset of pearls and rummaged in her drawer for more. There's a skeletal forest across the plain, and in the center is a fortress with many women, concubines to this ghost. Outside the fortress is an army of men, women, and ape-like demons.”“Do you know about this, Lamia?” I asked.“Yes,” she nodded. “My husband and wife told me.” A smile crossed her lips. Lamia was coming to have affection for Bray and Yun, the leaders of the Molech survivors. Lamia had married the pair to create an alliance between Lilith's followers and them.I found it. "Stop teasing me!" she burst out."I'm not," I said. "I really want you to go with me."There was a long silence. "I think he does," Elisa said. "He likes you. He told me so!" But why would anyone want to take me out?" Fran asked between deep sobs.That was an opportunity too good to miss. "Well, you are sweet and bright for starters. You have gorgeous hair, honey colored skin, a fabulous smile that lights up a room and the clearest bluest eyes I have ever seen - and that I want to drown in.