...................................................The car's sat nav guided them to within a mile of the secluded country car park which Nick had read... about. The metalled roadway turned to gravel. It was now dusk. They saw the headlights of a SUV approaching and Nick lowered his window to ask directions. "Are we on the right road for the..." "Dogging site?" smirked the other driver. Sure. Straight on for about half a mile. It's pretty hot down there tonight, I can tell you!" Really?"The driver. Somehow, I drift off to sleep.When I wake he is sitting on his side with his laptop reading."Please tell me I was having a nightmare this morning," I said."Sorry sweetie, but I think I know what happened and have a good idea how to fix it," he said.I sit up and snuggle next to him, "Ok is this a good news bad news thing or am I nuts," I asked."No, you're not nuts, well maybe but not for this," he said.I smacked his leg and said, "For marrying you maybe?" and then gave him a quick kiss."No, yes,. . have you told anyone?”Bold of the young woman to ask questions of her so directly. She liked that. “No. It is of no harm to my kingdom. Yet. But that is not why we are speaking.”“Then—”“I wish to speak of Julias.” This time she turned to look out over the crowd of Kindred below them. She knew at just what volume to speak for only Beatrice to hear, and if any Mehket had bright ideas to spy on her, she would notice.“What about him?”“He is key in my plans for this city, little witch. You see the. He looked down and saw why. His clothes were fried, at least the ones around his crotch. The front of his trousers and the underpants beneath were gone, as was most of the bottom of his plain T-shirt. His exposed skin was marred with little smudges of black ash. None of his three jackets had lost so much as a stitch."Um..." DaBigBoom said, realising he was showing his todger off to a girl, an extremely hot girl. He knew she was a devil and made out of pixels besides, but that didn't stop his.