When you were in high school you were really popular among girls and you never found it hard to get someone. You only realized in college that you hav... powers unlike anyone else. You can influence people, stop time, become invisible, and have whatever you are doing seem normal for you. These are just the powers you know about so far. There is a catch however, to keep your powers you need to feed, like a vampire except you feed on emotions such as embarrassment, humiliation, and lust. You first. You’d have gotten at least twenty years if we hadn’t intervened. You have an ethical problem with this?’ ‘No. In fact I suddenly feel like we can do business. So what do I get, instead of twenty years?’ ‘My help. In exchange for which, the set of… artifacts is returned to the church and buried again, as was meant to be.’ I shook my head. ‘No. Whatever these artifacts are, whatever this is about, I intend to see it through.’ ‘By which you mean sell them to the church, or the highest bidder.’ I. He is greeted at the door by Cathy and Lucy with hugs and kisses. Jim meets him in the den and shakes his hand. It is dinner time. David puts his suitcase aside, and joins everyone in the dining room. They speak casually over dinner, getting caught up on the latest family gossip. After dinner Lucy shows David to the guest bedroom. On her way back down she encounter’s Cathy on the stairs and advises her of the rules of dress while Uncle David is visiting.“Cathy you can wear your usual sleepwear. That word just popped into my head. And this woman wants me to watch something that's being displayed on it. I concentrate for a moment, and the images sharpen and come into greater focus for me. I can make out the image of two people on the screen now. A man and a woman. Both are attractive for their respective gender, and seem deeply interested in one another. They're standing quite close together, and they're saying something.For a moment, I can't hear their voices. But a bit more.