" That's all right," I said. "I want you to be honest. Have you noticed anything else?" Not a thing. In fact, if you really want me to be honest, I'm ...eginning to think some of my students have decided to perpetrate an incredibly elaborate practical joke." If they had," I suggested, "they'd have found a more glamorous leading man." And, and..." Laura's mind was clearly in a whirl with this idea, but then she rejected it. "A nice girl like Penny would never have demeaned herself like that, just. Once again, I whirled around and once again there was no one there."Who's there?" I said confidently, breaking the eerie silence of the night with my voice. There was no reply. Not a single sound. I turned back round again and started walking and the click click of someone behind me followed me. I told myself to remain calm. I turned around again and the sound was gone. My green eyes scanned frantically around me trying to see, through the darkness of the night, a shadow of someone or. I once again attempted to get up, but this time I succeeded.I reached for a terry robe that was on the foot of the bed.As the covers fell away I realized that I was totally nude. I began toexplore the room. The cabin was massive. There was a bedroom with aking sized bed, a elegantly furnished living room with a baby grandpiano a fully stocked bar/kitchenette and a bathroom with a jetted tubwhich looked more like I should use it to do laps than to bathe. I wasfeeling a bit light headed so I. Run her tongue over the welts and whorls and make them disappear so that his body would be perfect again, as it must have been once.The cluster of hairs around his navel pulled her eyes downward. His belly was almost concave, like the flesh below his ribs had been sucked out by a cannibal with a drinking straw. She would eat less from now on, she resolved, so that there would be more for him. Even if it meant he would go home sooner.She followed the hairs to the waistband of his flannel.