I need these papers before you go."Gregg felt almost obliged to interrupt the two of them in order to prevent them coming to blows. "Excuse me, ladies..." he said.The two women span around, startled, to see Gregg's twinkling ruby shining darkly at them. They fell at once under its spell, gazing deep into the gem as it turned in Gregg's hand.Gregg was pleased to see that the ruby was as effective as ever. "I'd like you to raise your hands please. You're being threatened with a gun. A masked man. Do you think, Matthew, that I would be so cruel as to do this to you? Let you leave here without feeling the touch of a woman? I spluttered, Unsure of what to say, not wanting to offend as the scope of her plan unveiled itself. Its fine.She told me Just get ready to go for a walk. You wont be needing your clothes, just shoes. Meet me here in five minutes. I sprinted to my room, stripped naked, and looked at myself in the mirror, fretting. I remembered about protection, and rummaged through my. Melissa worked out of her appartment as a French to English translator and copy editor. Even though she had lived there for years, she didn’t know many people in her town. She kept to herself. We went into a few stores and came out empty: too expensive, too large or too small or just too funky. “Let’s get back to basics and get our teeth into something real”, Melissa said as she pointed to a lingerie store.“Great”, I replied, “Would love something…sexy”.We toured the small store under the. ”Kal picked up the dazed rabbit and got bit on the thumb for his trouble. Handing it to Ikuno, who was more careful about keeping her fingers away from its teeth, his healing rune came to life and he carefully watched the flows of magic as they sought out injuries.“Skull is cracked but not split, surprising since it didn’t break the skin, nothing deeper in the skull though,” he said as the magic went to work, “Upper spine was damaged, but it’s healed already so pretty minor there and its.