I don't like setups. things like this can hurt in ways that a knife can't touch.

Especially when they backfire... You *KNOW* this is going to rebound in some way, don't you?

Oh yeah, backfire real good. And why do I get the feeling that Giddy is not going to be happy with a different sort of party when she finds out what is really going on.

No, I don't. I am seeing what looks to be like a set-up worth of the Carrie horror movie. All that remains is for Jocko to maneuver them into a target spot and pull a rope...

He doesn't need a rope.

He has Giddy to produce all the blood he needs...

So, Giddy will attack Jocko, and will Mariko defend?

You'll just have to see how it plays out...

That's why I watch you, Mr. Wager.

I;m always amused when people say "there so Child like." How many kids do people see with Tits, Hips?.. huh?... where are these alien kids?... wait, I don't want to know...


Good story so far.

Well the line comes from in part how critics point at the use of "child-like" races such as the Hobbits as a window to see the fantasy world from an innocence that is equally ignorant of how everything works that a reader might have (which is why halflings and children are often used as protagonists in the start of so many Fantasy novels)

The other point was something I heard about years ago on a late night radio talk show about dating and sex on one of the CBC channels where the issues surrounding short women and the problems they sometimes have with dating because men sometimes feel guilty or conflicted dating them because there is a perception that the lady in question seems younger than she is and this sometimes leads to short girls acting more aggressively in order to compensate for any reluctance on their potential partner

Of course you just know Lilac is going to start turning on the heat in order to fire up a reluctant Don...

great story thus far ! but there needs to be more !!...please ?

This can only end in tragedy... or possibly hilarity.

Hoping for a happy ending :D