Holly grimaced and looked Toshi in the eyes and shouted, “What is this madness?! Toshi, I demand that you release me at once! This is as bad as bein... raped. You don’t have my permission to do this. You are raping my mind!”Toshi blinked in her pain from the rack. “I know, and I will spend much time in the future asking your forgiveness. Holly, I want to talk with you. I pleaded with my husband for the opportunity.”“What?! He agreed to this?!”“Not exactly. He made me promise to keep this. Once in his room, Ben found a lengthy and explicitly sexy text from Erika on his Pad. It told him in detail how much and why she missed him. The coming week was Ben’s last in Gastein. Therefore, Erika texted, the “BOSS” would have to give her at least four afternoons off as the reward for Erika having done “her duties” over the weekend. Especially as her service had, probably, allowed the “BOSS” to spend a wild night with him. Erika’s text concluded with a promise, “On each of the four. "I chuckled as I sipped the two hundred year old Bordeaux, probably now valued at thousands of pounds a bottle, if there was ever a market for it."How many of you are there?" I asked."About a hundred people live here at any one time, but many more are scattered throughout the surrounding countryside. We're in contact with about a thousand people all told. There are small communities in each of the ancient cities but communication with them is difficult at the best of times." I can't believe why. Jeff was startled when another minion appeared, his robe amazingly white in this underground lair."Hypnos, this is the young man I was telling you about. Bring us something that we may have a feast on this fine day," the god told his minion. Jeff watched Hypnos leave, once again marveling at the silent departure."So tell me, my young friend, I know Poseidon gave you the Dolphin helmet, and I am giving you the Phlegathon armor. Is there anything else you might desire?" Hades asked Jeff, noting.