I took the path I had cleared the day earlier. I listened for sounds that I was being followed. I wasn’t sure, but I thought I heard them. When I ar...ived at the tree with the V I removed my cut-offs and stood in a sunny spot stark naked. Just the thought of the girls hiding near by and watching me caused an instant hard on. I waded into the stream up to my ankles. The water was cold so I retreated to a sunny spot on the bank. Hoping I was being watched I figured it was time to put on a show. I. Her feet stunk, sweat and pantyhose were an atrocious combination. The holiday stress was killing her, she couldn’t wait until Christmas, just her and her baby cuddled up near a roaring fire and a tree twinkling with lights. Glancing at the stairs, she sighed. Well, no sense putting things off. He was up there, waiting for her to join him and do the gift exchange and sex thing. Not that she complained about the sex thing. That man could do more with his pinky finger than most men could do with. . that was the last thing he heard from her.Everything slowed down till it got frozen in place after the explosion. A sense of incomprehensible dread consumed from the very depth of his being. He wanted to reach out, to charge with his dark attribute energy and what minuscule amount of dark element energy he could muster, but for this instance his perception was heightened well beyond all other of his capabilities. Thus, he could only watch.The ceiling cracked and split, raining rocks and Sun. .. this thing!We are all convinced that you are not only incredibly beautiful, but also most charitable. It is to this charity that I must appeal. While on the evidence, you are certainly within your rights to wonder at Douglas’s sanity let alone his intelligence, I can only offer the fact that he took a first at Oxford in mathematics and international economics. Although errors occur in every setting, I think his record is such that you should not dismiss him as a total airhead.In the spirit.