Shivers wracked my body.“Can you ... save them?”“No.” Radiant Gertrude moved to Zanyia, healing the swollen knot on the lamia’s face. “We ...ave to get them to the temple. We’ll need to perform a miracle. Rithi will have to intercede herself. She will have to pour her power into the world directly.”“So she’ll save them?” I asked, my body trembling.“Surly she’ll save Ealaín,” the priestess said. “As for the others ... I don’t know. Gods do not exert such direct influence often. It creates .... A lot of things were going through my mind as I sat on the other side of that large desk. She did tell me she was happy with my work. That was comforting."This is a performance review." She made clear, "Your raise depends on it."Oh, I was getting a raise just hearing her talk. Her voice was so incredibly sexy. It was more sensual than any music I could imagine. The snake in my pants was responding and she was the snake charmer. I began to feel a bit embarrassed at my somewhat obvious. “Oh, fuck you,” I muttered, moving on.Princess, who I had originally named Selina, had been a black cat in heat that my unwanted resident witch had transformed into a human woman in heat. With Demie missing, she needed me to have sex with someone in order to generate energy for her spells, but the cat-like female had managed to open my window and escape! She was naked and acting like a cat, so she should have been easy to spot, but I was having no luck, and it had been a full day since she had. "Don't know, the towers may not have power either, or the network could be down. Depends how widespread this is, I guess." You know, back when I was your age, losing power was fairly common and it was just a minor inconvenience," Linda recalled. "Nowadays it seems like your whole life is put on hold." They had electricity back then?" he quipped, teasing his mom about her age."Hey buster, I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it." Her deadpan, tough-girl impersonation got Ken.