‘And as for what happened to him…’ The door opened then, throwing painfully white light into the dingy room. Her eyes widened at the sight stan...ing in the doorway, a scream beginning in the pit of her stomach. ‘… That’s what happened to him.’ Welcome to the City. John The sun rose slowly over the city, beams of orange and yellow piercing the grey dullness of the metropolitan streets. What should have been a busy city centre was oddly quiet and looked as if it had been the recipient of a full. Mandy and I had won the lottery and on an impulse had bought a cruiser, yes I know, daft wasn`t it. Anyway, we needed to get the thing home and my persuasive misses, Mandy, had convinced me that midsummer, flat sea and it would be a breeze to get back to Essex, from Brighton if we took a can or two of fuel and our road map, kept the coast in sight and wandered along we could be home in a day or three. Dopey here was under the “affluence of incohol” as they say at the time, so here we were. "No," she frowned. "The postman was just over the road. The builder told me I was a very naughty girl and how naufghty girls need to be punished. When I asked what he meant, he said I needed to be spanked. Before I knew it we were in the living room and I was spread across his knee like a bad little schoolgirl, hotpants down by my ankles and so helpless. I just held my breath in anticipation, my body trembling. God, how he made me wait, lifting his hand ever so gradually. I almost cried out.. Have you already looked in it?” She asked. “Does it have any sort of specialty?”“There seems to be a lot about living essence in it,” You said. “There’s like a chapter on ‘Augmentations of objects, conspicuous and hidden’ and something like ‘Enchantments for taks and dutiful operations’.”“Ha--like doing homework, hopefully,” Denise laughed. “Bring it in and let's try it." Denise went straight up the stairs, and you followed."Are we going to your room? Where's your mom?" You asked."Out at the.