My life goingforward would be an attempt to free it from limits and bounds.Our trip back from Marathon passed in silence.Stacey's knock at the door aw...kened me. "Hey you, I'm off tonight, want to hang out?" I'm beat. After last night and being on the water all day the lastthing on my mind is to go out partying." We don't have to party or go out. We could hang out here." Let's do that."We didn't make love, but ended up holding each other as if we tried tobecome one. No food, no drink, no. ‘I’ll try that.’ We don’t often screw while standing up and I had forgotten how much fun that can be. Dan brought it back in spades however as he worked his delicious hard-on in me. It didn’t take long until he gave a shout and came. His climax carried me to another of my own. We held each other and made eye contact. ‘Now, baby,’ I said. ‘Give it to me now.’ He strained again and this time he succeeded. When I have sex with heavy comers like Stewart or Dan, I can tell when they’re ejaculating. The party is over, maybe your boyfriend will put up with this nonsense, but I’m done. But still, I don’t hate you, I’ve just had enough; you went too far this time. So, I wish you well, I hope you find happiness or whatever in the hell you’re looking for, it just won’t be with me.”She sat staring at him for a moment. It almost seemed as if she were digesting his words, then she blurted out, “Oh, go fuck yourself.”Mike shrugged his shoulders, put his coat on, and whistling “Zippidy Do Da” walked. You were shot in the chest, the heart. How... ?" she faltered.In reply Ben's right hand lifted ever so slightly from the bed. Sarah could see it was taking a great effort and she hurried to take the hand in hers.The familiar feeling she got when 'travelling' with Ben and sharing his 'worldview' returned and Sarah found herself high above the planet looking down at the surface.Her stomach lurched as her perspective zoomed towards the continent that she recognised as the one where Aetherkraal was.