Before we had left Green Island, we had peppered the hull of my shuttle with some of the new crystals. I’d also added a spell that let me use the po...er of the ship to redirect any spells I wanted to wherever I wanted them to go. It could also suck up magic directed towards the shuttle and the crystals absorbed the energy.Storm had mentioned they planned to use a storm to wreak havoc on the island. With my ship being in the vicinity, it was sucking up their magic. I said aloud, “I’m surprised. I don’t think it made much sense whatever it was.Dan pulled me away from the door and wrapped his hands around my upper arms. Then he lifted me up off the ground so that I was dangling in his grip and my face was up at the same level as his. I might have been thrashing around a bit, or he might have been shaking me a bit, I’m not sure which. But then he captured me with his eyes and his voice penetrated into my brain.He was telling me to stop – so I did. I didn’t stop suddenly. I kind of wound. “Never mind, you can come with me.”The fembot reached out and gripped Gerry by the back of his neck.“Oww, let me go. You’re hurting me.”“Yes, low levels of pain are sexually arousing.”Gerry was trying to remember the parameters that had been put into the conversation and behaviour model, so that he could find a way of extracting himself from his current predicament. He wasn’t having any success as the fembot tightened her grip on his neck. With her other hand the fembot grabbed hold of Gerry’s. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the alarm clock on the raggedy nightstand. The time was five-o-three a.m. She lay back, exasperated. Beaten. She wiped the perspiration from her forehead before closing her eyes again. She looked over at her husband and cringed. Then she started to cry. Recent Past Annabelle was sixteen when she married Fred. He was twenty-one. At the time, she thought she loved him. When she found out she was pregnant, her parents decided they had to get married. As time went.