The girls circled roundhim, as he wearily raised his head, his weakened arms and legs barelysupporting his weight. The girls circled like a pack of wo...ves. He sawthrough the mists of weariness, their slim young�maidens. Young musclestensed and wiry, bodies bronzed and shapely, with young breasts proudlyjutting, and legs long and lean. Their faces were lovely but cold, he sawno mercy in their cruel smiles. They allowed him to stagger weakly to hisfeet, and then with shrill shrieks, they were on. The cradle exuded strange fluctuations and on its wooden frame runes and shapes that shone, in hard to tell yellow or gold, spread to the floor and all around the area the young woman was standing. A nearly transparent pillar of the indistinguishable yellow gold shade emerged from the floor, up to the ceiling and sealed from above and below. In its center were the cradle, and the young woman and the baby protected beside it.Amazed at the ability of the formation’s constructor to conceal it, Zax. I have no desire see one. But it looks like that’s where we’re going.I didn’t even know what to hope for as I got out of the car. I certainly hoped no one I know sees me going into this place. I hope we’ll be the only customers. That didn’t seem inconceivable since it was so early in the day and the parking lot seems to be nearly empty. I hope that if I’m going to be forced to watch a dirty movie I can at least sit somewhere in the dark in the very back row and satisfy whatever curiosity Dr.. Ever since my dad had begun teaching Gabriel the in’s and out’s of car repair he’d barely left the shop. But the familiar metallic and electric sounds were missing and so were Gabriel and Grace. I noticed the door on the other side of the shop was ajar. It opened up to the fenced-in back of the shop and the small patch of forest between us and Main street. I don’t normally consider myself to be the irritatingly nosey type, but curiosity got the better of me. Were they getting back together? Was.