The clamor of combat had died down, and by the time they reached the underground room that was their goal it was plain that the fighting had ended in ...an apparent stand-off. A rank of Shadow People headed by their first friend Ka-Kachima held their weapons at the ready, menacing a dozen or so wolves across the width of the chamber."Harg! Tell them we are not their enemies, that it is only Zhordan who we seek!"Harg called out to the other wolves, a series of barks and whines, and a gaunt gray. The moonlight illuminated the boy. His skin was marked everywhere with welts and puncture marks, blood dripped and pooled in the hollows of his body, collar bone, fingers, crotch. Blood stained the grass and the earth below the boy and he was marked with a dozen scratches and patches of dirt. Zai's own cum dripped with blood from his cheeks and the boy's own seed was splattered on his chest and shining in the moonlight. The sight made Zai smile.Dawn was coming, and Zai, like most demons, was a. " Hi," Cassie said in a tiny voice. She looked as if she expected someone to strike her.Melinda shifted in her seat and offered Cassie more of the bench. Cassie hesitated before sitting down.Melinda opened her mouth to speak and paused. She looked into Cassie's face and changed what was she was going to say. "Are you all right?" I didn't sleep well last night, Melinda," Cassie said in a forlorn voice. "My dreams... too disturbing..." I'm sorry I had to call you down here like this. I just. I was concerned when I heard that she was living with an older man in New York… she’s had a lot of terrible things happen to her, and she doesn’t have a lot of experience with love. I was afraid she was being taken advantage of. But I am glad to see that I was wrong—you two really are in love. And you’re even that much older, really—I was afraid she was living with someone old like me.’ Julie was now walking back towards us. ‘It does my heart good to see Julie like this.’ Julie slowed up, we.