"So what do I do?"I looked to Demie. "What?" she asked. "I don't know anything about harpie births. I only helped her get the egg out so she'd stop sc...eaming."I continued looking at her."Okay, fine. I'll ask around. In the meantime..." she pointed at Monday, "your bedroom's off limits if you like keeping your intestines on the inside."We stuck around for a bit but it was getting late. We went home.---Back at home, I fired up the volcano vape and we both hit it pretty hard."So your mom said. It was a betrayal to the onlyperson he had ever loved - his dad. Brian began to suspect whether it wasjust the kind of affection a son would usually show for his father.Sometimes, he would imagine himself as Elizabeth and the realistic rubberbeing roughly pushed into him was Ben's. Yes, he even started thinking ofhis dad by his first name. Amid the insults and the terrible thingsElizabeth would say to him, how he wished Ben would be there to sweep himoff his feet like a knight in a shining. “Indeed,” Conna nodded. “I note you didn’t deny he is some sort of agent though.”“No,” I smiled. “I didn’t, did I?”During this I had, via an AI, placed a call to Tillan and was pretty sure he was observing.“I don’t suppose you could assist us to ... change the outlook of the Kingdom?” Mella asked carefully.“Assuming we would be interested, is there an organisation of a less militaristic nature, yet ... powerful enough to take over?” I asked, again carefully treating it as a hypothetical. We went back to the locker area, "You can use the shower first and join me in room 2 when you are ready".I mentioned that I had just showered at the hotel, so would be there shortly. She gave me a towel and I proceeded to get undressed. For this first time at the spa, if it had been Bill doing the massage, I would have worn a bathing suit. But since it was Stacy, I was nude underneath my towel. The massage room itself was lovely. There was some light aromatherapy scent in the air, nothing too.