She lies in bed at night, frigging herself to my image in her minds eye, forever on edge unless I give her permission. It’s all she ever wanted. To ...be used like a slut.”Abbey failed to hold back a shudder.“All she required to embrace that side of herself was a tiny little push. And I gave it to her, just with a simple string of words that might sound like nonsense at first. But they will wriggle into your mind and stay there. They will grow until they push out every other thought from your. “That’s okay, we’ve stopped, I didn’t really know why I done that but I didn’t want you left out” thank god, she didn’t see through me. “Well I’m uncomfortable, I don’t mind if you guys wanna do it but I’d rather not join in, if that’s cool?” “That’s fine” she smiled at me her face still flushed. We smoked our fags and went to watch our film, when the film finished we went to bed. The next morning Suzy had work at 4 am so when I woke up at 7am, I went into Paul’s room to watch television. He. ‘Aw, isn’t this cozy?’ the newcomer cooed, tilting her head in the same annoying way that Vivian did. ‘What are you doing here?’ Cypress repeated. She had regained her strength, and she looked furious. ‘Oh, just checking in,’ the other genie said, smiling maliciously. ‘Boy, you sure got lucky. I was furious with Savion for screwing this up…and now there’s nothing I can do to change it.’ Cypress rolled her eyes. ‘Ephasia, get to the point, or get out. You might be a full genie, but I am fully. ”His face screws into skepticism. “You’re new right?”“First day here,” she says, smiling. “But I bet you’re wondering how I knew you were captain.”“Yeah, that thought did cross my mind,” he agrees.“It’s your jacket,” she says, pointing the patch that says so.He follows her finger and laughs when he sees where she is pointing. “Yeah, I guess that tells you. So you have a name?”“Arlyne,” she answers.“Great,” he says, stepping back and grinning for a moment to look her over. “The name is Brad. You.