She reached beside herself onto the table beside the bed and brought out a small foil-wrapped object. We only had one condom. She had brought it along..., just in case, even though they had made it clear that they were not sure, on this first meeting , how far things would go. Her lover offered it up to me, and as I put it onto my hard cock, I watched as he mounted her in missionary position and began to fuck her. I had never seen two people fucking before up close (other than watching myself and. Before I show you this book I had better explain how it came into my possession.”I paid rapt attention to Dai Jones, one of several in the locality of that name, as he recounted his tale.“The thing is that Arthur Foley passed away in this very town, not half a mile from where we are now. He was, I believe, visiting the book festival, Oh, it must have been ten years back. I think he was due to present a talk on the art of writing sci-fi, but he didn’t live long enough. He passed away in his room. As we took the short fifteen-minute drive to Chinatown, I cautioned Barb to not get her hopes too high and don't agree to anything without thinking about it first. Their building was easy to find, right on Cermack Avenue and the Chicago River. All of the apartment lofts had huge balconies overlooking the river and facing an empty warehouse.Once the three of us entered the lobby, Barb pushed the button for their apartment and a female voice asked who it was, so Barb announced herself. The voice. Or, at least, something smaller than a modern human longbow.”“So elves may have served with them as well.”Ellerie nodded, then thought back to what Bobo and Treya had told her about the conversation. “Everything comes back to that ritual,” she said. “That must be what caused the Burning.”“You’re making assumptions again,” Bobo said. “Though, I admit, it had to be something big for the people to abandon the city.”“Especially while leaving her and the others behind, and some of the things we’ve.