"This willonly hurt for a second," she said, as I saw her arm fly down towards myprivates while I yelped from the sudden pressure on my balls, her rig...hthand moved up and pulled the strip from my brow.I whimpered for a second at the sudden pain. "You did fine girl," Iheard her whisper to me. Just as Sandy finished I heard Trish skip intothe room."Ready when you are," Trish said to Sandy."Just a sec hun, one more to go," was Sandy's response.With that she grasped the cloth on the other brow and. He remembered sitting in the back seat of the taxi. Making small talk about her forthcoming relocation. He remembered arriving at his apartment and leaning over to kiss Chantelle's cheek good night and goodbye, wishing her a safe trip, feeling the softness of her lips and then, and then nothing. He could not remember anything after that. He could not remember going upstairs, letting himself into the apartment or getting undressed and going to bed.He remembered the taxi ride. Chantelle, a. “This reminds me of a Conan story.”“Conan?” The Prince raised a brow, and Jack couldn’t help but laugh.“Conan the Barbarian. The story had a bunch of these immortal beings in it, and when they grew tired of life, they would kill themselves in a ritual suicide. It...” He chewed on the thought for a moment, before leaning in and setting his head against Antoinette’s shoulder. “They were villains in the story, but it was sad. They lost the will to live, for no other reason than they’d been alive. “Exactly. Portal is an amazing skill in it’s utility. It can be the edge you need in a fight, or it can be something that helps your quality of life. Once you’re able to open a stable full-sized portal, you’ll find so many different uses for it going forward.”After lunch, the five of us got started on that right away. My mom was on hand to give us some tips, but we got it, after a while. Neither Mason or Sonja could keep their portals open very long, but they could keep them open long enough.