It’s silver light has the snowflakes shimmering. Portia sighs, burrowing into her seat. “You worry too much. Don’t you ever stop thinking and j...st live?” “When your mother can literally threaten you with jail time… you fear not thinking.” Predatory hunger lights up in those too green eyes, paralyzing me like a hypnotist’s pendulum. She spills out of her seat toward me in a slow crawl, grey sweater dress riding high on her svelte figure. “I’m so gonna fuck that fear out of you.” * I hold. " What about you? Do you trust us?" Yes. I can't explain why, but yes I do." Thanks, that means a lot. You want to attend a six year old's birthday party?" Sure. Don't you want to get changed first?"Daphne looked at herself. "Oh, geez, I look a fright." She stripped off the remains of her clothes and tossed them in a nearby garbage can. "There. Now I'm ready." With nothing on?" No taboos on nudity in this house. Besides, nothing I own is going to fit me anymore."I almost laughed. "I suppose. But the girls were still gettingmore and more upset and resentful about his behavior.And that was why he was sitting in the house lounge, talking to the Tri-Delt President, Jill, and two other sisters, Stacy and Maria. Thesisters were upset with Jake's latest request. "Look," Jake said withhis oh-so-superior smile, "I know I'm worth 20% more pay. You need me, Ineed the money, so it is all good." He couldn't help himself so headded, "Do you need me to work out the math for you girls?" He. . I didn’t think of it that way,” Brot’k replied with a small laugh. “I would say that the only way to know would be to take a direct blast and find out.”I did not relish the thought of that occurring, but if it meant that we would know for certain, perhaps a low-level drake could allow us to test the theory.“Brot’k, if you used the hide and the some of the scales, what would the percentage be then?”He thought for a minute and replied, “If I used the dragon hide, with the dragon scales, sixty.