I relaxed slightly."Hi Nate."He chuckled. "Gave you a bit of a scare did I?" His hands were roaming mywet body not, slick with soapy water. I nodde...d, my heart was still racingfrom the initial panic."What are you doing here?"He rubbed his body against me more. "Isn't it obvious?" Nathan and I werenever alone, it was always the three of us, or me and Gwen."Um, Nate, Gwen's not here." Shhh. I know. But I also know how needy you are." He moved his hands tomine, and pushed them against the. "Is that all right?" Oh, sure. If you think we should," he nodded and then started pacing and muttering again."What do you mean, 'What he's really doing here?'" Malinda asked suspiciously."Well, he does work for the Empire," Melody started. "But as I said before he's not a census taker. In fact he's a scout for the Talent Agency..." No!" Malinda screamed and backed up in her bed until she was pressed against the wall. "Get him away from me!" What?" Marlin jumped startled out of his musings."I. Sheheld herself ready, wondering what part of her was to be subjected to the fiercebite of the cloth whip. Her warmly stung bottom snuggled against the cool woodbelow her as she closed her eyes.The sound of the whip was not enough warning to prepare her for the spurtof pain that shot upward from her breasts. A wave of cool air brushed her facefrom its passing, unnoticed in the overwhelming juice of sensation that floodedinto her mind. Her body danced on the table, jumping with the overload of. ”“Yes?”“Explain to me what just happened.”“Didn’t you see it yourself?”Carver balled his fists. “Of course I saw it myself. Just help me comprehend how a simple summoning ritual could go to hell in just an instant.” Carver turned to the large pile of corpses behind the magic circle and invoked one of the spells his Mistress has granted him. One of the mutilated corpses, a slender elven girl, her throat cut from ear to ear, jerked into a semblance of life. He guided the animated body to one of.