"I told Liam that there is no way I can look like a girl so the pilotwould never be fooled.Then Liam looked at me very seriously and said, I know you ...ave alwaysbeen respectful of my belief in magic where very few would have been,but magic is real. James you must try to believe in it because you haveto make a decision. James I can turn you completely into a natural womanlike you were born that way. But I want you to tell me if you're willingto go to this far to go on this trip."I thought for a. ’ Jon looked at me. ‘Was I as good a lover as him?’ ‘You are different and good!’ ‘What is different?’ I thought hard on that question. ‘You don’t own me yet.’ I told him. ‘Can I?’ ‘Yes, maybe.’ Finally he reached for me, another of those sessions of need, grabbing and almost fighting each other to give pleasure. Jon spent the night in my bed, the same bed I had never in my entire life shared with any man but my husband. At 10 AM Sunday morning, there was a knock on the door. I opened it to a. “There are several of us,” Sylvia explained. “When the Heralds became too prominent, too dangerous to our kind, we moved beneath the city, into what’s left of the old Temple.”“How many Servants are there here?” Aran aked.“Currently there are four of us, but we expect a few more to join us when they can.”Aran smiled for the first time in hours. His vala told him Sylvia was being truthful. He also felt that kinship with her that he had felt when he first met Sorla; perhaps because she was a. Then he’ll know, and he might not appreciate it.’ ‘Couldn’t we do it to him while he’s awake?’ Lily shook her head. ‘The waking mind isn’t as pliable. You’d have to force so much into his brain at once that you’d damage his daylight mind. It’s best to build from below, in dreams, than it is to enforce from above.’ Jill pouted. ‘If he keeps up being such a pain in the ass, enforcing from above might not be a bad thing.’ Then came a heavy clonking up the basement steps—20 steps, Lily counted..