"I know, love. I..."Mara cut short the older woman's comfort and threw the covers off, revealing a wrinkled nightgown, exactly like the one the older ...ara was wearing. She leapt out of bed and walked across the room towards the window, hugging herself tightly. "They're coming every day now. It means something. What happened to me... it wasn't the end... it was just the beginning."A chilled look came over Elizabeth's face, and she visibly shuddered. "I know," she said very quietly.Mara whirled. "The Goddess has a most bountiful provision, indeed."?I recognized the purse as the one that I had been provided with at thetime of my transformation. I never even opened it but it had been caughtup and stored in my tessaract the first time that I had activated it. Ihad not seen it all this time, and not needed it since I already hadwhat it contained, a new identity and enough funds to get started frommy friends who helped me in the beginning."The best gift that I can give all who have loved me. I tried to lift some cash off the various stands, but all I got was some Mexican pesos, some one-dollar bills cut in half, and monopoly money, which seemed to be legal tender in the crowd but wouldn't be of any use in the real world.Had it been any other day, I would have called it quits, and gone home to a glass of wine and watch the film at eleven that hopefully didn't involve alien sex or Sigourney Weaver. But I had to make it count that night, so I went above and beyond: I raided the money. “You like dick,” Tavares pried.“That’s kinda obvious, don’t ya think,” hissed Kamron.“Yeah. I just thought it was weird that you left it out when you knew I was comin’ over.”“I had no idea you were coming up here. I thought you’d bring cash,” the host retorted.“You do got a point,” Tavares relented. Then he pivoted the interrogation back on Kamron, “What kinda niggas do you like.”“Handsome ones,” Kamron huffed showing his annoyance.“Damn, nigga. You don’t gotta get mad. I don’t hate. I was just.