She too fell under our power. With the three females of the races that I needed, all that was to be done was to provide you all with a reason to come ...ere, so that I could commit the sacrifices. Since I knew that Lucas was liked by all of you, even without our power, I believed that capturing him and bringing him to me would most certainly spur you to heroically come here and try to rescue him." That is why we met little or no opposition our entire way here," Atheria said. "You needed us. I must have been about three. I can’t remember a thing. ‘Apparently, the whole family had come up to the holiday house for Christmas. Mum’s younger brother drove back south the day before we all arrived, so he wasn’t here when it happened. Mum, Judy and I flew from England on Boxing Day, and we’d only been here a day when grand-dad died. Mum said he’d taken me for a swim, right there in the lagoon, came out of the water, and bang, collapsed and died right here on the beach. That’s not fucking. He swung my case into the carriage and stepped back to allow me to enter. I handed him a tip and placed my foot on the step.My appearance in the door frame was pleasingly impactive. The compartment ran crossways across the carriage with doors on either side of the train but no corridor and its solitary occupant was slumped next to the door at the far end. A quick glance was all I needed to take him in. He was a tall man in a well-cut travel-stained brown suit, a soft-collared blue shirt, and a. The mashed potatoes were on top of the stove, staying warm. Jennifer, clued into the plan, offered to go to a movie and do some shopping. Susan had laughed, saying a movie would probably be plenty long enough.They'd eat, chatting about their day, and then she'd get what she so desperately needed. Don didn't know that yet, but that didn't matter. After all, he'd been without sex for the same six months.Her plan went flawlessly.She took his plate to the counter and set it on top of hers."Oh,.