She could get to like this! She moved the pail to the middle of the living room. ‘You start over there by the TV. I’ll start at the bay window. Ca... you reach the bucket ok then?’ ‘Sure, babe. I’ve got long arms.’ Henry grinned at her. Lynn smiled back. It was an old joke – how short she was, how tall he was. How much he could reach that she couldn’t. Soft swishes of rags across wood lulled Lynn into a meditative state. The muted sunlight of February glowed on the warm brown and tan grain.. " He took a small, orange, jewel-likeobject from the case, and carefully showed it to Mark, in his palm. "Thisis a crystal that came from that hilt. We found it by cross-referencing allknown objects of that era with jewels of the same distinctive orange colorof the crystal. We have tested it. It was the crystal that generated the wavein 1587."Mark, after a lot of time on the supercomputer analyzing the time wavefrom the past and the characteristics of the crystal, we have found theparameters. I was like an addictwho couldn’t stop. I must have been at it for quite some time. I was soabsorbed with ramming that humming fucker in and out of my tunnelof love and moaning like an animal that I didn’t hear my auntcome into the house. You can just imagine my embarrassment whenI finally looked up and saw her with one arm up leaning in thedoorway, staring at me with a rather wry grin on her face. (Shelater told me that she had been standing there enjoying my . My way of escaping from my aunt Gina and my uncle Leonard. I didn’t want to throw it all away. Zoriel said I had no choice. I told her to go screw herself. She glared at me with baleful eyes, but said nothing and simply vanished. Utterly. After Zoriel’s departure, I contemplated my options. How in hell was I going to survive my next encounter with Erebus? On second thought, hiding might have been a good idea. If Erebus was coming after me, there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t go the police.
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