"Hey!" Beth said angrily, picking up the image Elaine was trying to avoid projecting. "Béla loves you! Even you are an annoying pest! She's always wo...dering about you, but you haven't visited or anything! I'm sorry if what I said hurt your tender feelings, but that's no excuse for you to stay away..." Well, she hasn't visited me either," Elaine complained, still feeling sorry for herself, "and she left me holding court for her while she's on this great adventure of hers. She could have checked. But we gotta move on.”“Hey did you hear about Hardain?” Enaria chuckled.“Hardain, that’s a dead loss. I went there about two thousand years ago and I doubt that it’s even changed very much. They will never develop too far, there’s not enough metal in the planet’s crust to make any serious civilisation.”“I know, anywhere that uses iron as part of their currency is kind of fucked.” Enaria replied as she got up and walked naked into the kitchen. A few minutes later she came back with a can of coke. Their coupling was sweet and tender and so enjoyable that they did it when ever and wherever they could.Chapter 2: Aeternus AmorEvery month Jacques would accompany his father to the catttle market in Grenoble, the nearest large town to Villard de Lans. Here Monsieur Verde would pick out the beasts that he would buy for slaughter, and it was his ability to choose the best animals to tempt the gourmets of the town that made his business so successful.Jacques would wander about the town after the. This quite was interrupted when I heard a knock at the door. Peering out between the blinds I saw it was a friend from work. I invited him in, we both walked into the living room and he sat down on the couch opposite me. Would you like a glass of wine or maybe a beer, I offered. His response was “a beer please’, which didn’t surprise me. Since he is a beer drinker, nothing fancy, but his taste is for a semi famous local beer. As we talked about work we both indulged in a second beverage. Myself.