Within minutes there was nobody left, no sign of people ever having lived there. As I watched, trees, ferns, grass spouted from the ground, growing at...an accelerated rate and blending in with the forest that surrounded the village. I was shocked."Where did they go?" We don't really know, blinked out of existence and all signs of them erased from the Earth. All we know is that is is some kind of magic, much more powerful than our own." Your own?" Yes, I told you earlier I was a sage, in many. Melanie was awake, and looking directly at him, but her expression wasn't angry, disgusted, and not even really shocked, just a bit surprised, but also intense. Melanie reached up with her left hand to place it over top of Rick's right and held it gently, but made no attempt to remove it from her body. Without uttering a single word, an understanding and agreement seemed to pass between them, as Rick leaned down again, uncontested, and placed his lips back to his mother's in a kiss more. Jennifer leads me over to the St Andrew's Cross #2 and straps me infacing the cross. She blindfolds me and forces a penis gag into mymouth before stepping away.Chapter 14I hear a pair of heels cross the room and stop behind me. There issilence for an unbearable five minutes before I hear Susan say,"If that welt leaves a scar, you will be severely punished Jennifer."I hear the fear in Jennifer's voice as she replies, " yes Mistress."Susan approaches me and whispers, "well well, what have we. As everyone else was naked, how could they dress any different. Even so, their beach bags bulged with even the few possessions they had: a decidedly miscellaneous collection of cosmetics and knickknacks. As they walked, the castle got steadily bigger and the town steadily smaller until all that could be seen of Pederasty was some old ruins in a field that had once been a thriving township laid waste in an earlier war with Sodom. A goat was tethered by a tree and there was a small monument.