Or maybe he really wasn't."Paul has never had any secrets from me." No, I could not say that. He had not told her that he had told me. He had not been...open to her, and I could not brag that he had always been open with me, even after we had broken up."I read it in his eyes, when he asked me to join," I said."And you joined?" Liz said, surprised."He wanted me to," I said. His engagement present for her. The proof that he loved her more than me. In her eyes, at least, it would be the proof. It. If you accept that belief, it will give you the power to remain corporeal the whole year. If you find out I’m lying, you can just gorge yourself on whoever you want and then finish me off as dessert. Then you can go back into the ether until next Halloween.”I took a deep breath, “But if I am telling the truth, you have a way to return to what once was before belief in magic left this world.” We sat staring at each other in silence for several minutes. Then I said quietly, “Why don’t we blow. I jumped into the pool, still without my top on. I stood in the shallow end so the water would run down my hair and over my big tits. I splashed water at Deena and she shrieked from the cold. Her nipples went hard under her bikini top and I teased her until she jumped in the pool with me. We splashed around, play-fighting until oops her top came off! Deena has the same big breasts like me. She's a C cup and covered in water they looked so sexy. She laughed and called me a slut. I laughed too. " Liuz shrugged. "I'm sorry, Your Grace. Our artillery isn't going to be as big a factor as we hoped."His Grace nodded."We blew our advantage on that first wave. Things will be bloody from here on out."Liuz looked out the large tavern window. He should have come here earlier. Should have experimented with different ship designs. Maybe not had them. Maybe they could have built some sort of artillery position immune to trebuchet attack. So many possibilities left untried..."James."The Elven Queen.