Sexual connection. Like you and I had." "I know what you mean," I stated bluntly as I finished my drink. "Why? Do you feel guilty?" she asked, turnin... the tables on me as shepoured us both another drink. "A little," I answered truthfully, although my guilt was quicklysubsiding under the influence of alcohol and Tara's irresistible sexual aura. "Are you sure it doesn't bother you?" she asked again, bringing thetopic of conversation back to her wedding ring. "I can take it off." "No," I. Tim did his rounds and found no one there, locked up, and headed for his car. The parking lot was unusually dim this evening. Apparently the neighborhood kids had taken to their old tricks of target practice with their BB guns on the light posts.He was about to get into his car when he felt a dull thump on the back of his head. The already dim parking lot spun around and into blackness. Before going completely dark, Tim thought he saw the muscle man from earlier.He awoke with a throbbing in. I will demonstrate our power." Ryan then spoke into his radio once more saying simply, "Demonstrate."There was a single burst of gunfire and a nearby five-story ruin crumbled into small pebble sized debris. "I do not wish to kill you and your people," Ryan lied, "Set my mate free now for I too tire of talk." Once again, Ryan forced back his seething anger.Amanda spoke to Babuto in a hushed whisper, "Babuto please if you do not do as told we will all die. Neona has told me some of the powers. I have, I believe, solved that riddle. Because of my upbringing I did not use the ring for long periods of my life, thinking that I was somehow taking advantage of women, when really all I was doing was releasing their real desires from the insane rules of our society which has so corrupted our view of the simple sex act. Therefore, the power of it did not flow into me and keep me vital. The ring must be used to pass the power into you. Remember the words of the man who passed it to me, "It.