Your dancing this evening was so exquisite, We will cherish the memory... hold you in our hearts... possess you... We would certainly not wish to shar...e you with anyone else."Then he signaled his guard. and spoke the order."Kill her."An audible gasp broke the silence... the sudden intake of many breaths... the harper lost his grip on his instrument and the harp fell to the stone floor with a loud crash of reverberating strings and splintering wood. And in the moment's distraction Elsbeth spun. With wide eyes, she looked on with horror as a spherical growth pushed up against her lips. Looking beyond the invader at her mouth, Jasmine saw her captor in his white smock moving just inside the blackened glass.Her eyes glistened with tears, as Jasmine keened a pleading whine and held her palms upward in surrender. At that moment, four more Shepherds reached her and affixed their appendages to Jasmine's skin. A sudden tugging in unison upon the abducted female's ankles pulled her down, to. I was in the earth dirk in my dry eyes worms had dug into me finding flesh to feed upon. Again I was Asenath but she had been dead now three months and a half. Fear and madness helped me burst from the small grave I had made for her body. Will gave me strength to move up the stairs. I knew what must happen. Dan must kill it. I could do nothing now. What little power I had would be gone soon. I had precious little time to do anything at all. I had to get it killed. It could not go on. It had to. “I am not in a habit of sharing with deities of other realms.” Sniffing the air Thoth smiled big. “Brother, you seem to be as bad as brother Min, are you trying to collect more wives?”Ephus, could only shake his head at the large smile that Thoth had on his face.His eyebrows raised Ephus said, “as you remember I didn’t try with any of your sisters. It just seemed to happen,” Ephus ended with an even larger smiling Thoth, who was shaking his head no.“Brother I know better, I know of the four.