But when I saw him I knew that the sign was totally useless. I knew him the minute I saw his face. I ran up to him and just wrapped my arms around him.... He dropped his bag so that he could hold me close and smell my hair. He had always loved the fact that I used Herbal Essence on my hair. And I had made sure that my hair smelled of roses when he got there. We walked down to the baggage claim area. Talking about all the old times and what we had been doing since then. I told him all about my job. These men were generally quite happy for Innocence to do all the fucking, and sometimes weren’t interested in penetrative sex at all (though they would be charged for it anyway). She discovered that much of the time spent with them was in conversation. The sex often seemed to be just an excuse to spend time with a beautiful woman and to offload on her all their worries and concerns. Innocence had sympathy for some of them. Not all of them were interested in her merely because they wanted a more. I needed to see the end of this ritual myself, needed to know that the nightmare was over, and I didn’t have it in me to care for someone else right then.Avernus’ mouth moved – chanting something, not that I could hear it – and he stretched his arm out so that the rapid flow of blood dripped into the open sarcophagus beneath him. He’d hit the artery, I could tell – the blood pulsed out of the wound, something I knew from episodes of CSI back on Earth was called ‘arterial spray’, and I was a. ” she explained. “What you,ve been in that bottle for five hundred years?” I asked, incredulous. “Yes Master and I was beginning to think I,d be in there for eternity, but with much gratitude I am now your servant for life.” “But no one lives that long!” “No mortals do not, but I am immortal and have been around since before you Lord was born or most religious figures for that matter. My religion is magic nothing else.” “In that case why not get me off this island and back in my home?” I.