They dragged me home and told my mother what I had done and she..." she giggled a little, shaking her head. "Well, let's just say she convinced me tha... I wouldn't be doing that anymore." I can't picture that," I told her. "You look so innocent." That was my advantage," she said slyly. "I got away with coming home stoned so many times because my parents just couldn't believe that I was capable of doing such a thing."We had a laugh together and ordered another drink. As we sipped it I told her of. "You know your way around." And certainly your body." That's what I meant," she joked back.Jeff reached down and gave her butt a squeeze. "Still nice and firm." You always say that. Do you expect it to get flabby?" Not at all. I hope not. It better not."After Jeff and Beth went through the hygiene shower which was a gateway into the Wxy'n sector, they and the Council of Four entered a transport that moved on the ground. Jeff sat in the middle, Beth on his left and Sandrell on his right."This. I felt it within her and despaired at ever being able to explain that she had no reason to fear me. I continued, hoping that she would somehow understand. "I am a Vampire, just as Jack was when he attacked you. Please, understand, had I not stopped him, he would have done the same to you." “A Vampire?” She scoffed. “For God’s sake, Caius, do you honestly expect me to believe that? You must be out of your mind.”While she could not understand, her disbelief was as painful to me as the reality of. I grabbed my powder horn and set a charge in, then rammed a patch and ball down and put a fresh primer on the nipple. He spotted me and drew his pistol. It would have been a lucky shot on his part as it was at least 50 yards away and those Old Navy revolvers weren't accurate at all that far away. I hollered out to him to drop his weapon or the next shot will part his eyeballs. He thought about making a run for it, then got smart and slowly laid the pistol down and tried to move around on.