She was pretty much the only girl he'd ever been with, but she never left him sexually unsatisfied. After dating for a year and a half, their passion ...till burned. They liked one another, liked to talk and liked sex with each other. It was possible they were in love. While Laurie looked good in a bikini and was a total sex machine, Chuck wondered about her older sister, Robin.The door opened and Chuck walked back across the porch toward it. "Hello," he called."Hi, is that you Chuck?" Yep." Then. There was just enough room to lay a pallet down in the root cellar. I felt safe as within my mother's arms the first night I slept in the cellar. It did wonders for my confidence.I tore down the house a little at a time and stacked the recoverable building material into piles. I had to use a maul to erect beams under the collapsed floors as I worked from one end towards the other. It had been a two-story farm house, the second floor being only a partial addition bearing a couple bedrooms.There. " I gestured over to the front and side doors. As a white beam zipped to each as I heard a firm, hard locking noise in my mind. Close and lock."Oscura." The warm mist of the Haze spell relieved me of the tension that was now thick in my muscles.I panted, out of breath. I felt like I'd just ran a few laps at full sprint. This spellcasting thing was tough. I steeled my focus and pulled out the paper on which I had written the lengthy "Alice" spell. I smiled and recited the rhyme once, for good. She coughed up some water and finally managed to take a few stuttering breaths. ‘That’s it, get it all out.’ Aidan rubbed the space where he’d hit her, soothing her, then he looked up to his captain. ‘She’ll need some rest, but she’ll live… Depending on what you want to do with her, that is.’ Riker ignored the murmurs of ‘She can bunk with me’ and helped his first mate lift her. ‘Put her in my cabin – I’ll question her later.’ He didn’t respond to any of the grumbles that the crew suggested.