I knew you would talk to me if you needed to.’ ‘I’m sorry, Daddy. I didn’t do anything really bad.’ ‘I know, darling. I know you wouldn’...t do anything to hurt me and us.’ ‘No, not at all, but I was curious and it was exciting.’ ‘Yes. Sometimes it’s fun to explore new things. And it can be easy to get caught up in the moment and do things you wouldn’t otherwise do.’ You are lying quietly in my arms. You say, thoughtfully, ‘Sometimes it’s exciting to think about doing things you’d never really. He took a deep, slightly raspy breath and crawled into his tent. He was shaking badly but felt a slight exhilaration, also. He had survived being enveloped by the Spook light. He grinned as he crawled into his sleeping bag and thought, I hope whoever is watching got a picture of that. No one can say I chickened out then, and I’ll have proof I stayed when the light appeared.Todd woke the next morning to a burning sun and chirping birds flitting around. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but. He drew a deliberate, deep breath and forced himself to rebuild his calm. The drumbeat ceased in his ears and he heard Drew say, ‘Didn’t your parents teach you any manners?’ ‘Yeah, they did. What you did was the height of incompetence. You scared my witness away. So…’ He bit back a few choice curses. He simply couldn’t make Drew understand how much had been at stake and how many lives had been left in harm’s way by his actions. He replaced the word fuck with thank and sarcastically said, ‘Thank. I hadn't even seen them when I came in.Just then the door behind me opened and the men that had been out front started coming in. With the additional light that shone in when the door opened I saw that there were a half a dozen men standing around watching us. Well, probably not me so much as the naked young woman I had with me.I knew what went on in places like this but I wasn't sure how it worked exactly. I had heard that horny men came here and went into these booths and other men gave them.