No tingling or buzzing sounds. Nothing to give me a hint. That being the case, I simply stared at one arm alternating with the other.For about half an...hour, still no frigging clock in the room, I sat entirely still, not allowing my mind to wander. Finally, I couldn’t wait to satisfy my curiosity. I looked at the gauge in my head. I saw some differences. My body measurement showed some improvement almost escaping the red level.My power measurement was much lower than previously. It had dropped. That was something else again. Those strange young men sure did make beautiful women. We also enjoyed the scrumptious flavors of New Orleans' cuisine, and of course, we made love passionately and often.I was wrong about Elizabeth Angleton. She wasn't bi-curious, or at least not curious enough to fall prey to Sandy's subtle seduction attempts during the dinner the night before Josh and I left New York, and again during a private lunch Sandy arranged with Liz mid-week after we left. At Sandy's. I saw myself as never writing again, and having to spend the rest of my life as a fettler in a foundry or some such inspiring task. I lusted for a mid-morning cup of tea, but feared the terse Mrs. McIntosh’s disapproval of such conspicuous consumption. Then I rallied my scattered forces, what was left of them, and decided on one more assault upon the castle ‘Block’. ‘Something sexy to open with,’ I thought. ‘It’ll catch the eye and interest of the prurient.’ I sat myself once more before the. And Mrs. Anonymous. Smirking signed a six-month lease on the unit and had scheduled the cheap furniture rental company to deliver a couch, TV, and king size bedroom set to the unit tomorrow. He had gone to a local shopping mall and bought some pillows and linens for the bed and some towels for the bathroom.He had an appointment with Mr. Anonymous' employer later that day. And he had obtained a couple of lines of coke that he hoped to make use of shortly.Smirking sat down at one of the tables he.