.but I’ve been careful so far about keeping things as casual as possible when we’re not fucking each other and she hasn’t been scared off by me ...yet. I yank on my jeans from yesterday before I push open the cracked bathroom door. Steam billows from the shower and I can see Chanel’s form through the distorted glass, making me throb in my pants. “Morning,” I say, grabbing my tooth brush. She turns off the shower and replies, “Good morning,” in her soft, sweet voice. I put toothpaste on my brush. But the crazies are running this part of the world, so to them it is sane. It is what they do. A man loves God by praying in Farsi. Another loves God by praying in Yiddish. So of course they must kill each other, their wives, neighbors, and all the children. This is because the fanatics say this is what they must do."That is life in their part of the world. And even those who share a common tongue and worship the God they call Allah, they look back in their history and find cause to kill each. This was strange they usually appeared healthy if not weak except for Trully. Frantically Jake rubbed the Talisman thinking of Trully. Only a moment passed before she appeared, looking where Jake pointed her mouth fell open. "By the great Jinn!" Came a whisper from her lips. Then looking closer she gasped, "I can see nothing wrong with them!" Jake could only nod he hoped that Trully could do something these two were in really bad shape far worse than Trully had appeared. Trully had used every. It sounds absurd of me to say, but I will be sacrificing something that has been important to me if I follow through on my desires, for it is likely to be a final confirmation of who I really am. Is that not strange and ugly? Do you now think less of me? I feel like you should. Please be honest.”“I think I understand what you’re saying. I hope you’re not just trying to find a creative way to talk me off the ledge if you and Kathryn have sex. No, no,” he added, waving off Alejandro’s incipient.