“I know you’ve explained it to Shelley, but how come your sister Bella has your three Grammys along with all your other awards?”“Sorry, I mean...t to talk to you about it too but, with how crazy things have been, I remember it at all the wrong times,” he apologized, looking a bit sheepish. “As for answering your question, it’s a bit complicated, actually.”“How so?”“Well, maybe complicated isn’t the right word,” Rennie replied after a moment. “It just became that way later on.”“You’re speaking in. Could summon his energy to flood her interior with his creamy substance like soothing pudding pie locked inside her tight sphincter’s gate.Whitey was walking a bit funny now and the others teased her about her recent shouts that sounded so piggy that they repeated, “Oink, Oink!” more than once bringing tears of remorse to her soft blue eyes about her dreadfully unladylike behavior in Tarzan Jr.’s hands.The bedroom grew silent as they rested in the darkness and all dreamed of the quiet majesty. Before they camped for the night, there in the shade of the Ziggurat, John soul-bound his new weapon.For the first time since getting exiled from Typhon’s island, John felt like he might have a fighting chance to rejoin his friends.Day 235:Ten days later the road-weary pair strode out of the swamplands and across the sandy fields to a tiny Djinn town called Southern Oasis. The place was remote enough not to require a wall, though the exterior perimeter buildings all had thick walls, and doors. Phoebe was already frozen, and the chill extended to Hannah, who suddenly sat stock still, impaled on my bone.Phoebe turned and Hannah yelled, “Wait! Don’t leave! Please, I can explain!”She leapt off of me with the agility of a woman ten years younger than she was, and dashed naked out of the door after Phoebe.I lay there in a daze. I suspect my reaction was like that of a person buried under a collapsed building during an earthquake, and who regains consciousness not quite understanding what.