Then I heard my husband, Casey, call down, “Hey, are you two coming back up any time soon?”Jon and I broke off the kiss and felt flustered. Did Ca...ey suspect they were up to no good?I called up, “We’re coming. I was just showing Jon the progress in your workroom, honey.”“Okay, well, Liza and I are going out back, so come up when you’re done,” Casey said.“Quick thinking, Janna,” Jon said, leaning in to kiss me again.I put my hand on his chest to stop him. “Jon, we need to go upstairs. We can’t. Sandhya pressed her fingers to the indigo skin of her cheeks. "Did anyone else feel a funny kind of burning?" she asked. "Not hot so much. A bit like a tingle. But burning all the same." Yeah," said Vikram. "It must be this weird desert heat." I'm sure it was an apparition," said Dorothy adamantly. "What else could it be?" Whatever it was," said Rao, pointing at the place where the particles had only moments before been gathered but had now vanished, "perhaps it had something to do with that. ” Susan giggled a little.“Sorry about that. I guess I got carried away.”“I’d say you were out cold,” Morgan laughed. “But the scene was definitely hot.”“Anyway,” Kendra continued. “Arthur needs to spend more time at the easel and less time ... um ... getting you into stimulating poses.” I noticed that the entire time Kendra was talking to Susan, she was touching her. Just little light touches on the hand or shoulder, once putting her arm around our model’s waist. Each touch caused another. . he had proven to be a reluctant host.This time, THEY would have to infiltrate and then... corrupt... a fine word. THEY liked the sound of that word.WE ARE CORRUPTERS!And as luck would have it, he found exactly the right target. A redheaded woman walked out of the building below him. The flowing red hair reminded her of Mary Jane Watson, but her body was more mature, more feminine...perfect! As quickly as Corrupter could, he detached his tentacles from the wall and dropped onto the woman's.