“You were only half-Infernal before, but this will make your coming transformation easier.”“Why ... did you change me?” S/he wondered.Not angr...ly. Not. Angrily! S/he told herself.“Your old body died.” The tree said, not unkindly. “But a Paladin, who seeks Redemption offered to exchange his own progress for you to live on.”“Ariel.” S/he remembered.The tree branches bent downward in what s/he took to be a small bow. “His sacrifice was acceptable to me, but you must agree to heed Redemption’s Call. Her hugs would get me hard in seconds, feeling that hot little body, and soft amazing chest against mine. Little flirty tickle fights that led to nothing more than a frown and a ‘Stop or I will tell Lucy’. She didn’t seem to have an interest in boys, and in fact seemed to think that sex even was dirty. One day after having sex with Lucy in the room next to hers, I came down to breakfast with Beth staring at me with those piercing hazel eyes.‘I heard you two going at it last night while I was in. “What if that resets the whole room?”“I’ve only done it once.” Adam argued. “And I’ve been thinking, maybe pushing the reset doesn’t count as a failed attempt, since I did it voluntarily. Maybe it’s a way to start over if you lose track or get confused. It makes sense, given how difficult it is to navigate and keep it all straight in the dark. Plus, there wasn’t anything added when I pushed it, like ... Besides, even if I’m wrong, we have one more chance anyway. I highly doubt it’ll be too. As expected, Ken stayed for the cocktail hour but stuck with soft drinks, and then joined in the Circle dinner. Susan succeeded in getting the seat next to the handsome pilot for dinner, and then both Dave and Alice noticed they got deep into several conversations.After dinner, Susan talked to Wendy, Kat, Grace, and Nancy in separate conversations of varying length about Mike’s offer to do a porn video of some kind. To no one’s surprise, she ended up back with Ken when the others in the Circle.