We introduced him to the group at supper, and everyone welcomed him warmly. They started peppering him with questions about being a werewolf, which he...answered with a barely polite monosyllable as often as possible, and after a while everyone got the hint and quit pestering him. We found him accommodations at the castle, and he went to his room early.Leaving in the morning took, figuratively, forever. First we had to wait for Isolde to finish packing, then for her things to be put onto carts,. The night of the party Mike took one look at me and said, "You do know that you may get fucked in the car on the way to the party and almost certainly will on the way home, to say nothing of what will happen when we get home." That is the effect I was working for."Mike was able, only barely, to keep his hands off of me on the drive to the party and I was grateful because I didn't want a hair out of place when I went after my quarry. We arrived 'fashionably late' and entered a room full of. We don’t use nails. He slides the dowelsholding the foot platforms into the right position.Then we all work to raise the cross. Now she hangs,some of her weight on her arms, most on her feet whichshe must stretch to reach the supports. She is alreadycrying. We fix the cross into its base. We leave and goout into the living room, leaving her door open.The conversation is desultory. We listen to her moansin the background. When they stop, we look at eachother. It’s not time to take. Our breathing was still fast. I don’t think she had ever been quite in a situation like this, and I know I sure hadn’t! Things had seemed to slow down and nothing around me affected us anymore. We just stared at each other. Suddenly, her eyes changed back to anger and meanness. She pushed me down hard as she jumped up. Lisa yanked off one of my shoes and they both ran off laughing. I found my shoe in a mud puddle a block away and walked home with a soggy sock, a dirty shoe and new found.