I don’t know ’bout no temples. There’s a cathedral down the end of Market Street. But why you bring us here to ask us about temples? We ain’t ...exactly the church-goin’ kind, if ya know what I mean.’ She glanced at her friend again, widening her eyes and making a face at my naiveté. She looked back to me and said with disdain, ‘An’ why we walk the street? ‘Cuz we need the green stuff.’ She rubbed her fingers together. ‘Gotta eat, gotta drink.’ She nudged her companion then. ‘Specially drink.. My will power gave way, my strength close in its retreating stead. I fell into a wall, sinking within some distance before it provided adequate support. I trembled, grasping at the muck – I could not see! But what was there to see? Turning around, I stretched forth an arm from my roost and found my fingers grazing a wall of mud in parallel. Upright mud rose also at the perpendiculars, the two not more than arms apart as well. I was locked solitary within this minuscule prison – nay! a prism! A. He closed the case and went to the kitchen where he put the Mask into aplastic bag. Next Max went to the hall closet and found a pair ofKaren's tennis shoes and a long khaki trench coat that belonged toKaren. Max wrapped the trench coat around her night gown slipped onthe shoes and grabbed a key. He exited the house and felt the wardspart and then snap back in place when he passed.He rode the elevator to the lobby and waved at Gus the doorman as heleft the building. Walking two blocks to. Their species had so many cultural norms relevant to copulations.Yet they were all too willing.Across the water, I knew that dozens of my kind were having their way with other humans.None of them would speak of it."Rachel, are you okay?"I heard the voice under the water as my phallic shaped tentacle pushed up in between the folds of her vagina. She gave out a startled squirm as I entered her, not sure what to do with herself. In her hand was the garment I'd freed as she flapped against the top.