“I mean, you’re really gonnabe mad at me.”“I won’t be mad at you,” she said softly. “I promise Iwill not, as...you say, be pissed at you.”I sucked in a deep breath, and stared at my mother’sheaving tits. “It was accidental Mom. I was retuningafter taking a glass of water from the kitchen when Isaw light coming from your room through the narrowopening of door… and saw you naked … and I…”“Your Dad was naked. My compassion will be the undoing of me - I can’t stand to think of anybody hurting so I’ve gotta make sure Billy isn’t driving himself off some cliff in the wake of whatever happened with his girl. “Billy?” I ask as I duck into the small, dry circle under the umbrella. “You ok?” Silence as a tear rolls down his cheek. He exhales and the skunky odor of his weed tickles my nose. I climb a step up the ladder, and reach up to his mouth, remove the doobie and take a long drag on it myself. Billy. She would go see him, no matter what. Lina couldn't turn on the light and risk waking her husband, since she was already running out of time. After they had returned from dinner earlier that night, she had placed her dress and underwear on the chair by the door when she undressed. On bare feet, she padded through the darkness and felt for her clothes. Feeling the silky fabric of her dress, she quickly grabbed it and pressed it to her chest. She once again looked towards the bed, watching her. The continuous increase of power in his soul, body and dantian simply felt too good, but he was impatient and wanted to already know what would be his limit. Hence, he gave in to the exhilaration and used a surge of emotions to hasten the newfound power out.A pulse of darkness dispelled the fieriness from the sky above. The ocean’s waves were cleared as a depression pushed the water down a level in a scope of fifty something kilometers. Far, at the coastline of the western continent, the waves.