" Hannah started to remove the last bill, but I leaned in and stopped her. "I'm supposed to collect," I said.Her blue eyes met mine. "So collect," she...said, a slight tremor in her voice. I reached down and gently pulled the five from her panties. "That's only half," she said again in a whisper, swallowing hard."Well," I said, equally nervous. We were close enough to kiss, and she smelled like flowers. "First thing's first." She stood and covered her breasts with her arms as I hooked my fingers. The wife had a conflict so this was my first trip by myself.The week is spent in classes that only a few people attend. Most folks go golfing, sailing, sunning, or diving. IN the evenings the company pays for a great luau each night with lots of booze.Alyson seemed to pay a lot of attention to me and it had me bewildered. She knows I'm married, she has met Cindi yet it seemed as though she was coming on to me in the evenings. I was a little flattered, Alyson is 26 years'9", long blond hair and. Since my illness, I have leaned heavily into the myth and culture of my Ancestors. I’ve also restarted some of my magickal practices. It suits me and I find comfort in it. The reason I mention this is I wear for magickal reasons a bracelet. I was wearing it last night. Call it further delirium, or what you will, but I called out to it mentally and was instantly oriented. I was still on the carpet ride and absolutely terrified, but I was anchored.Eventually, I fell back to sleep. Only to have. Bad enough when you were whiling away the days with no human contact, fading into the dark, becoming a whisper of a person. You idly observe your claws, drenched in the blood of the man you’ve killed only a few minutes ago.Hobbies aside, the claws were a good place to start with the other issues. You were always a bit lanky, bony, not precisely masculine in the traditional sense, but you were rail-thin now (though, ironically, you’ve never been stronger). You can practically see your bones any.