Ertu regarded the slight man. "How did you do that? What - " Ertu paused,his body shaking. He held his hand before him and frowned as the fleshseemed ...to throb and swell then rapidly contract. "What the - " his headwas thrown back as though he had been punched and he seemed to wrestlewith an immense invisible force. Suddenly the flesh about his bull neck bulged and flowed as though therewere something alive beneath the skin. With a wet wrenching sound thegrowths sucked in, leaving his neck. And then I begin to cry.I am sobbing hard against your chest, you are so confused about what is going on.“Lizzy, what is the matter? What has upset you?” you beg of me.I haltingly tell you my concerns, between sobs, as you rub my back, hug me, and kiss my head then down over my tear-covered eyelids.“Baby, baby, baby. Everything is going to be fine. You will be the one to say it is over between us. I never want to let you go,” you reassure me.“But Sarah,” I stammer.“Lizzy, I told you things. ‘That’s good. Your touch is so tender.’ She gave me a reassuring smile. ‘Yes,’ the dear girl sighed. ‘Keep doing it, don’t stop.’ While I petted her, a silence fell around us like a shield, isolating us. A stillness settled, broken only by her moans and my laboured breathing. The whole world centred upon this darling girl – woman. ‘Will?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I want you to remove your trousers.’ ‘Must I?’ ‘Yes,’ she giggled. ‘It’s the only way. Do you want me to help you?’ ‘No, I can do it.’ I stood, and. When he spoke, his voice was deep and hard, rumbling up from the depths of his chest. ‘Quite the swing, Princess’ said Dominic, with a dangerous smile. ‘But am certainly not leaving here until you listen to me,’ he continued with deadly calm. ‘I dn’t want to listen more of your lies,’ replied Lisa, shaking a little. ‘Princess, I know you are upset with whatever has hap…’ he began. ‘That’s none of my business and really, I have no interest in whatever happening in your life,’ she said,.