I wished her and upon realizing she had already noticed I smiled and resumed my efforts to get it under control. She smiled and left the kitchen to my...relief it didn’t get more awkward.I met her father and we started chatting with her mother started preparing lunch for us. Once we all sat down on the dining table to eat, everyone conversed with each other. Her mother Riya started an awkward conversation about how her husband is kept busy by his job and it’s become such a bad habit of staying. This was a pair of guns on opposite sides of the shaft and able to traverse both horizontally and vertically. The guns had some sort of sensor which enabled the guns to track anybody getting close. As soon as the guns started to fire, the team ran back up the shaft to get out of sensor range. These guns were going to have to be eliminated, they were too dangerous to let them have free shots at the humans.One of the humans' weapons was ideally suited to handling this kind of problem. They had a. Well, I could put an end to this very quickly by getting Mathew back, but was he worth the trouble? He had plans of turning this world into a nightmare, while opening the magic fields back up.One of the first things this lawyer did when he took my case, was ask me if I would take a lie detector test. I asked what for, as they weren't admissible in court as evidence of my guilt or innocence. He had replied that the police were going to push strongly for it, and that he himself wanted know how I. After checking in, we unpacked our bags, put away the food we'd brought with us, and flopped on the bed, exhausted.Early the next morning, I woke up spooning Zee. Her bare skin, all smooth and warm, felt so good against mine. Out of habit, I started to gently stroke her body. Zee responded with a soft "Mmmmm" and pushed her body back against mine.I sat up against the bed's headrest and propped a pillow behind me to support my back. I pulled Zee against me, her back against my chest. I kissed.