.. embracing... kissing... her eyes glanced to the window, meeting his in the darkness. Her fingers rose in a tiny wave.She stepped back from her comp...anion, her fingers reaching behind... finding the zipper and sliding it down. The dress pooled at her feet and her Alabaster skin glowed in the soft room light.She was naked beneath the dress. Her companions’ hands caressed her and she turned... as if to present herself to her admirer outside.Lips brushed her nipples and her fingers pulled at his. Or were you expecting a view of something else? Susie said, a touch of irritation in her voice."I'm sorry, Mum but I couldn't help it, you're so beautiful that's all!"Susie was stunned. Of all the things James could have said, he had blurted out the one thing that could cool her anger. He hadn't tried to lie his way out of it or come up with a smart remark, but had told her exactly how he felt. "Hmmmm! But, aren't you forgetting I'm your mother? What's been happening lately isn't proper. Well, therewas a half gallon of heavy cream that I polished off but that didn'tsatisfy me. Then I noticed that there were still several packages ofbutter shoved way back on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. I pulledout one, unwrapped one of the sticks and took a small exploratory bite ofit. Hmmm, it wasn't bad; in fact it tasted pretty good. So I pulled allthe packages out of the refrigerator, there was a little over six poundsof the butter in total, and carried them back to the family room. As for the area past the first ring, the deepest point even the Horned Eel, a Peak existence in Ercas Mir, avoided, this was a zone no living being could approach, both because till now the Overlord of the sea forbade it and since if someone did manage to get there, there was not a record of he or she ever returning.There were roughly a hundred experts meditating in the Earthly Crater and only a fifth were Martial Mortal or could stand their ground as Peak Core Masters against first level.