“I’m sorry about your wall.” I said quietly, “I was drunk and careless with a candle, and teen well… we’ll pay for the damages plus blowjob some, I can promise you that.” “I suspect Lucy will.” Arby nodded, bringing the pipe to his mouth. I sighed, relieved that he didn’t question me further. Instead, he patted his pockets, turning this way and that, searching his clothing for something. “You’re not a smoker, are ya, Miss Jules?” shaved Arby asked. I shook my head, and he frowned, searching his pockets with a bit more fervency, almost a panic. He suddenly stopped, relaxing as though he’d found his tinder. He brought his empty fist to his pipe, struck his thumb into the air, and from its tip, a blue flame ignited. My jaw slackened, my heart jumped to my throat, and my hair stood on end. Arby smiled at me from green eyes, no longer centered in white, but rimmed entirely with orange, reflecting the sapphire embers of his lit pipe. “W-w-w-w-what…” was all I managed to stammer, suddenly aware that I was burning my clothes off, my flesh alight with panic. “Oh, I’m truly flattered at the offer,” Arby laughed at my nakedness, undeterred by my fire, “but I try not to sleep with my descendants; though it petite appears that only makes one of us.” “W-w-w-what?!” I Hardcore gasped, stepping backward, smoke rising from the ashes beneath my feet, “Arbitrus Gen?!” “Arby will do fine for ya, Julia Gendian,” the ancient Heat Bringer smiled, walking toward me, “Arbitrus seems too formal, especially for family.” I stood with mouth agape, processing the new information in a sluggish, panicked mind. Arbitrus stared expectantly back, seeming to enjoy my reaction immensely. “Are you a Sentient?” My voice barely gaining purchase in my throat. Arbitrus laughed and gestured to his clothing and the pipe in his hand, making me feel slightly stupid, but putting me slightly at ease. “How then?” I asked. “Well,” Arbitrus said, easing himself onto a boulder, “there’s another like me, I think you might’ve known her. Redhead? Sparkling skin? Purple and gold eyes? Pair of antlers? Looks a lot like Diamond?” “Passion.” I muttered. “Ray Dawnbark’s sister, Silvia, if I remember correctly.” Arbitrus nodded, “She was a nymph matriarch, a caretaker of the woodlands, attuned to nature in ways most couldn’t imagine. Ray needed a lifeforce to preserve Arbortus, and Silvia was more than happy to live in a fucking tree for eternity, so he tethered her to the great forest he’d built. I’m a fiery guy with an explosive personality, so naturally, Trenok tethered me to the sun. You need something big for tethering to work, I guess.” “Why?” I asked, the flame dimming from my flesh as the shock dwindled. Jeff sat very still at the kitchen table, his coffee cup poised at his bottom lip, staring at the kitchen window that looked out toward the barn. Just the day before, I had been thinking how innocent and good teen they were, and now I was realizing how far away from innocent their little minds were. She then asked me to apply some more sindoor. Need to get something off your chest?” I asked him as he set up the Xbox. Another text message appeared beneath her first message. After a while Stew heard his father snoring, he and realized his daddy had gone back to sleep and that he was going to be stuck under him for a while. I said in a still strained voice. “I just need to wipe my forehead; Hardcore I’m sweating like a pig.” I stumbled on my heels, and barely caught myself on the wall. Fred hit mt prostate, as I’d hoped. The weather forecast for Monday was good and I’d go to the point at Birdie Beach, a nude beach north of where I live. Mike knew the trek home was at least another 14 hours. Don’t do this! She was still asleep when I phoned her early the next afternoon, but was wide awake when I got home. He dropped in shaved the coins and pushed the “Cream” button on the machine, then petite laughed. We all sleep together.” It felt good to stretch my old, creaky legs and knees, but my work was not complete. I wanted to be on my knees. I rammed into blowjob her depths. After yesterday; she figured that she would be fucking the football team or something. You agreed to obey me. Are you going back on your word already?