“There are only four Praetors left,” Béla explained, “one at the university, one on Deimos and two in the great ship; one with father and one s...are. If I take the spare to Earth and something happens to one of the others, the group without the Praetor will be crippled.”‘You must promise me that you’ll take a Praetor!’ Elaine insisted in her mind. ‘I’ll know if you’re lying! Your life depends on doing this!’Béla felt saddened by her sister’s madness. No one could see the future and know with. I knew this was wrong but I could not help myself. It was an opportunity that might never come again and I was helpless, far too weak to stop myself. Only seconds passed I heard a voice, "Ginny, what on earth are you doing?" I was jolted by the shock of seeing Jan standing at the doorway looking at me in utter disbelief. I was too ashamed to speak and she just continued, "what are you doing with my soiled panties? Are you smelling of them?" I started to cry and told her how sorry I was, and. Sure is strange when I come to think of it. We talked about other people but never about us. We talked less and less as time went on and eventually just stopped talking all together. By the time I was a junior in high school our relationship or lack of just stopped. That’s when I met my first wife and we started dating. Jenny was by then that little girl I used to know. Sad how that happens. We just seem to go our separate ways. Life sure is fickle. After I married my first wife and went into. That we'll keep you prisoner forever, or maybe you'll spend an hour with us, and come out of our home ten years from now." He chuckled at that, as did all the Faery folk around them. Once Justin nodded uncomfortably, Gorthum said "I promise that you will be free to go unhampered when the meal is finished, with no more time passing on the outside as what passed on the inside, and no more than a day at most." His eyes twinkled as he went on, "And we will only do what we have already offered to.