I had more power over my schoolmates thananyone else I knew. And I reveled in it.All too soon I found myself singing 'Goodbye' to them. The end of the...concert was close at hand, and with it the loss of my power over them.But even if I wasn't wearing the wig I now knew what it felt like tocontrol them. There was no one at this school who could approach me nowand believe he or she had power over me, because I knew the truth. Everysingle one of them would do anything for me right now.After the. .. you're hurting me!"Karen leaned down and kissed her, dangling her own luscious dark globes in Laura's face. "I'm going to hurt you more," she whispered seductively. "I didn't mention it before, but I found a new toy." Oh god," Laura thought, half in despair since she knew that every toy of Karen's meant a further descent into hopeless depravity and perversion.Karen leaned over and pulled something out of her bag. She held it up for Laura to see, a device made of two parallel black bars about. Each person in their society had a particular patron god or goddess that he or she would worship, based on his occupation or his needs at a particular time. However, each person would honor all the gods, to avoid falling into disfavor with them.Then came the twilight time, when the Invaders came from across the Eastern Sea, bearing weapons of a superior strength that cleaved through the wooden shields and shattered the bronze swords of the People. Even worse, the Invaders brought a New Religion. I persuaded Amie to try the closest thing to a reserved hot tub that we could find, she agreed, but said she didn't want to wear the bikini tonight, just her regular bathing suit since we were with folks we didn't know that well. It was obvious Sarah and Derek had no such compunctions. When we got to the covered, rather large Jacuzzi, both were already in the water, Sarah in the skimpiest of a white bikini that barely covered her already stiff nipples and was revealing enough to show she was.