" We'll take my vehicle," Scott said."You don't have to." I've only had the one beer."Ed held his hands up in mock surrender, "I'm not arguing."Vehicl...es were scattered up and down the street in front of the Mendoza house. He spotted Hector Mendoza, Ed's father, waving at him from the yard. He was doing an impression of an aircraft handler, indicating that he should park at the end of the driveway.Scott parked and they got out. Jobe, tail wagging, headed for the line of people streaming off the. Suddenly his sex drive was gone. But his wife reminded him that he wasstill expected to clean up the cream that soiled his wife's fabulousfootwear. Gretel and Olga were eyeing him intently. He fought not toweep as he bent to his unappetizing task. As Marvin lapped up his ownspunk and choked it down, the women discussed what they were seeing."Amazing," said Gretel. "What kind of man trades his sex life with agorgeous woman for the right to hump her boot like a horny dog?" And then," Olga. She'll spawnat a save point without the new curse."Yara frowned. "She thinks she's married now. The ring around her neck isa ring of marriage."Onsei said, "I confirm that."Yara thought to herself so strongly that she almost subvocalized. "I'mmarried?"She realized that she had zero idea of what that meant in fey society -and that the people here all expected her to know exactly what it meant,and what it didn't mean.Out of depth, out of depth. Yara felt a moment of panic.She stifled it."I'm going. I was sorry, of course, but then to my dismay she told me that she was letting the house to students at the nearby university.I had visions of rowdy parties and people coming and going at all hours, but to me relief they were fairly quiet, so much so that I hardly knew they were there. They did have one party, but they had the courtesy to pop a note through my door saying that it was someone's birthday, and that they hoped I wouldn't be too disturbed.But then, one Saturday evening, things.