The Benefactors bade that they become kin, and in doing so become protected by the ... circle.”The next picture was a carved relief of a Broker, its...blocky body painted with runes and markings. Had it undergone the very same ritual as Lena? It was so hard to make out any features on these depictions, the Brokers did not seem to have eyes or mouths, and they were shaped more like artificial constructs than living things. Were those suits, perhaps? Maybe it was just artistic license by the Krell,. The curves of her petite, yet perfectly shaped body were in silhouette just beneath the veneer of delicate silk and lace.“You remember this little number?” she asked.It would have appeared that Vasily, mouth agape, had been immediately and instantly placed into cryogenic freeze. A dollop of hot plov tumbled off his suspended spoon and plopped onto the suddenly active crotch of his boxers. He didn’t flinch. Goddamn, right, he remembered that 'little number'. He had bought it for her. It turned. I forgot all about responding to Vickie's inquiry then. However, when I finally collapsed on top of Eve, sometime later that afternoon, it occurred to me that I would probably have to go through all this again tomorrow night with Rose."Such is life!" I thought. "At least my life."Looking back, I think it was the sheer giddiness of having faced almost certain death and then living to tell about it. Having spent both my seed and my emotional ballast, I fell sound asleep beside the now sleeping. For a while we were off this world, it seemed like ages, but it probably was never longer than 30 seconds. Back into this world we looked around us. In a circle several people were gathered, kneeled down on a safe distance from us. To my left a young couple was looking, they were also feeling each other a little bit. Behind me two girls were busy with themselves, as I noticed by the movement of their hands in their panties. Between my legs I looked at the face of a grinning Chinese man, who was.