There was lots of cake and plenty of teasing going on. There were some pretty wild going away presents to go with all the joking around. Then someone ...ut a blindfold on me and it got really quiet. (What the fuck?) I was about to say something when a voice whispered, ‘Open your mouth.’ When I opened up a familiar taste touched my lips. The blindfold came off and there was Jilly standing there holding hir pretty lady stick all by hirself. S/he was wearing the same hot outfit she wore to the sex. Have one of the others back them up on close support and everyone else takes position as blockers.”He nodded and grinned, “At least this time it is not just us.”“Crimson Dragon this is Amber Dragon. You were right, the back ups are compromised. We are putting Dragon Nest into operation.”I looked at Henry and then at Albert and Molly, “It looks like your lunch will be rations in the vault.”Albert shrugged, “At least you replaced those old ones with first class ones.”There was a knock on the door. She really does like you, doesn’t she? Dennis, she gets three or four hundred a session from most of her clients. I’ve been going through her accounting files all day trying to figure out how fucked we are, and that’s the kind of money I need if I’m going to make the house payment and the car and insurance and my tuition bill. Four-fifty? Jesus, she lets you have it for cheap. How many times does that get you?’ My face felt like she’d rubbed chili oil on it. ‘Look, I don’t think that really. I saw that a frail, young woman was being chasedby something large; something black and scaly and... evil. Theshroud... the being, if you will... had glowing green eyes that lookedsort of like a snake's... It had tremendous leathery wings, and wasmuscular. It had tremendously large, ribbed horns that curved all theway back to its knees, and the creature had hair on its head that madeit look like its head was aflame... Its body was covered in thisweird... scaly, crystalline substance, and it had.