Robert watched her, surprised again, his anger still simmering. Somehow she knew he was watching and stood even straighter, occasionally stretching up...to show him a bit of ankle.Five days later, very early in the morning, a thump at the front door roused Caroline from her dream. She poked Robert who lay with his back to her, gently snoring."Eh, ow?" Robert managed as she poked again. "What?" A noise," Caroline said just as there was a second thump, a bit louder than the first, sounded like a. Kicking off whatever had grabbed him, he turned around wildly at the sound of a splash. One of the people he had seen earlier had surfaced and was grabbing at him. He couldn't tell if it was a man or woman, as its body was horribly emaciated and jet black, while the flesh itself was molten and decomposed. The fingernails were elongated and discolored like an elderly smoker's, the teeth were twisted and split up, and the eyes were replaced with two fist-sized craters in the skull. With an. I am proud to tell you that I have grown seven and a half levels and I plan to use them tonight! I promise Mr. Greenstick that I won't be as easy to step on next time!"I smiled hugely; her power had been closing in on the top level of mage's when I knew her 175 years ago. Damn I thought I hoped that this wasn't a trend, if it got too far out of hand the council would step in. I really didn't want to go against the entire council, with my levels now I could easily kill half of them. Though now. .. We can find some guys here-" It's not that, Jade. I'm having a really good time... I just feel awkward because some people were staring." They weren't staring at us because of that, Vega. I know exactly why they were staring. I'm rocking like a foot of cleavage and my tits move when I move, and don't act like you didn't know that. Guys like to look, and I know I look like a whore, but I'm just wanting attention." Is that why we have… you know... because you just want attention?" Tori hadn't.