" And that kept you from getting married?" That was the start of it. There is more, but first I have a question for you. Those were the girls you ran ...with and I've always wondered about that. The old 'birds of a feather flock together' thing."She blushed and looked away as she said, "Honestly Rob, how can you ask your mother a thing like that" and I had my answer. I wondered if my dad knew or suspected. She moved quickly to get me away from questions about her:"I still don't see how Dot and. You smile softly at the thought, the only crystalline memory amongst the muddled mass of images long since forgotten. Silently, a solitary tear rolls down your cheek as at long last you pass over to the other side.Darkness comes to greet you but not in the ways you've come to expect. There was no light at the end of a tunnel, no pearly gates or eternal hellfire, simply... nothingness as your body drifted aimlessly through a void. A brief moment of panic overtakes you at the possibility of this. I felt myselfgetting hard. And it was the sight of HER that was responsible, not a dreamlover from the pages of a magazine. That hadn’t happened in the longest time. Now here she was, standing in front of Jeff. Nervously she struck apose, pouting lips, hands on knees. Just like Marilyn Monroe. Jeff laughedwith delight and stood up. That’s when I noticed the camera in his hand. Hewas clearly an expert with the thing for in the space of a few seconds he’dtaken three. “Okay,” Sven said. “They’re passed. Let’s hurry.”I nodded my head and followed after him, my faithful feyhound at my heels.Zanyia“Wait!” I hissed, pausing as we neared the lodestone. I could see it up ahead, a massive stone veined with rusty metal. It stood the size of a house. “Don’t step closer, Master.”He froze as he crouched ahead of me. He stared at the ground. “Las’s putrid cum.”“What?” Aingeal asked.“Pit trap,” he said. He pulled out a dagger, prying at the meadow before him at the seam.