”“Are we not good enough anymore?” Bethany feared. “I’ll--”“Everyone shut the fuck up.” I snarled. There was quiet. I closed my eyes a...d took a deep breath. I hadn’t even pushed for that but only Dad was able to open his mouth at the moment. He laced his fingers with Olivia’s and put them on her stomach.I didn’t travel into her mind. There was no white space and our avatars there to sort things out. I was in her brain, but no more than I went into my mind to find the other paths, follow the. All this activity kept my crew busy, but there was little I needed to do. So, after an extensive swim, I decided to take the opportunity for a leisure day and a nice long sleep.I just closed my eyes and was ready to catch a few zees, when I found myself inside a dark glowing shapeless environment without clearly defined ground or any other solid boundaries. I felt my brother’s mind, more substantial than before. Whatever he was, he was gaining awareness and with that, he began to separate. When I looked at Claire she just looked back."Who are you people and what do you have to do with my wife?"The men looked at us and then at Claire who gave them a nod. One started talking, "We are members of the Society of Friends who run the Underground Railroad in this area. Thy wife is the leader of the Railroad in Oregon."I looked at Claire and she looked back at me with a steady eye. "Claire, we have to talk about this when I get back. I told you before that we need to discuss things that. I realised now, just how sexually excited I’d been; yet frightened at the same time! Looking back on it, Guy had been quite sweet about it all; before he fled to the Manor. He had cared for me; wanted to love me; but simply in a way I hadn’t been prepared for. If only things could have stayed like that between us; I could have lived with that.Since then we’d been initiated into the bizarre sexual ways of Iris Carlton-Hawes. I can begin to see that we have both been coaxed into doing things with.