Beth stirred next to me. Her long-eyelashes fluttered open. She moved hesitantly, like she didn’t know where she was. She turned over towards me sud...denly, surprise showing on her face as she noticed my body next to hers. Then her eyes met mine and her increasing panic stopped with recognition of me. Her expression softened and her now beautiful face blossomed into a wide smile. ‘Oh, thank you.’ She wrapped her arms around me and pulled herself to me, snuggling against my chest. She giggled, ‘I. Susan sighed with resignation and opened up her e-mail. Scanning through the message headers she saw a critical flagged message with the subject heading MANDATORY TEAM MEETING. She opened it up and saw that she was instructed to meet in the conference room in 20 minutes.Being in no position to argue, she finished reading the rest of her e-mails and started on the sales spread sheet she was working on for her department head, Ms. Reynolds. On her screen popped up a five minute reminder of the. Say, would your wife mind if you went out for a drink with us? I wouldn't want to cause you any trouble. The Nolands have caused you enough of that."We had more than one drink before the night was over. In fact they were too drunk to go home, and as we ended up in the lounge downstairs, I tucked them into my bed and I curled up on the love seat. It was a good thing I am a small man. Those seats are okay to sit on, but hell to sleep on. Over the course of the night my tongue had been loosened,. I was about to struggle free, thinking that maybe some of the Lilim wanted to continue brawling until I saw that it was only Shaina. She had her arms wrapped around me, holding me under my bustline with a panicked look on her face."They're mad, they're all mad!" What are you talking about?" I asked as we climbed further in altitude."Don't you see? Milen's going to freeze the entire Inner Yenne Velt!"I was horrified. "Can she actually do that?" Not on her own, but with Beata's power, she.