Author: Scytha
Title: The Monk and the Vampire
Summary: A merciful Monk and a reluctant vampire makes an unusual
deal.
Content: MF. Oral. Anal. Fantasy.






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(legal, cultural, divine) is not allowed to read such filth make
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Comment: This story is loosely based on certain player made
elements from certain computer games based on D&D but nothing
much is recognizable from either part since I've taken a lot of
creative liberties.


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                       The Monk and the Vampire



Quin carefully walked down the corridor, heading deeper into the
crypt. If anyone had been able to see him they would have said he
was sneaking his way forward. Quin himself would have disagreed.
Moving soundlessly and perfectly blending in with the background
was just how he had been trained to walk in dangerous situation
during his education as a monk.
Of course since Quin was a Master of the Order of the Iron Monk'
and held the Black Gi of the fifth degree, the question was
irrelevant since nobody would have been able to see him unless he
wanted them too.

He peeked around the corner and saw something moving up ahead.
Probably just another skeleton.
He had arrived in a small village two days ago and heard tales
that a vampire lord had taken refuge in an old abandoned crypt
close to the village. The villages had been busy gathering enough
gold to pay some adventurers to clear it from the undead
abominations.
Quin had slipped out from the village, heading for the crypt.
It was his duty to himself and his order to fight evil where he
found it. In addition, the village was poor enough as it was so
he had thought that it was unnecessary for them to spend all
their gold on mercenaries when he could deal with the problem.
Besides, he could use the exercise.
So far he had fought his way through hoards of skeleton warriors
barely worth his notice. He had yet to see a vampire though the
animated skeletons were a clear indicator that the vampires were
down here.

Quin inched his way forward towards the moving shape. The shape
suddenly turned around and headed away from him. He followed it
down the corridor until he came to its end where an open door led
in to a vault.
Looking through the door he saw what the shape was. It was a
female vampire and a cute one to boot.
She was about five foot five tall with shoulder length black
hair. The hair framed her pale, almost white face giving her an
unearthly beauty. She only wore a black vest and a pair of thigh
leggings. The vest was held together by a single knot at her
waist leaving plenty of cleavage showing. Her breasts were on the
small side but what he could see of them, which were a lot, they
looked very fine.
Her tight leggings showed off a pair of muscular legs and a firm
butt so Quin had no trouble figuring out that she was very fit in
addition to her powers as a vampire.

The vampire was walking back and forth in front of a large iron
gate leading deeper into the crypt. All the time she was looking
around herself nervously.
Quin got the feeling that she was even more uncomfortable down
here than he was which was very odd considering she was a
vampire. She should be used hanging out in crypts.
However, he pushed those thoughts to the back of his head. He had
a mission and she wasn't part of the solution.

He focused his Ki and crossed the room at an inhuman speed. The
female vampire didn't even know he was there before he hit her
with three finger-thrusts on certain nerve centers making her
collapse. Quin grabbed her neck and was just about to break it
when the vampire cried out.
"Wait! Don't kill me, please don't kill me. I surrender. Just
don't kill me."
Quin paused when he heard her plead. He wasn't going to kill
something that had surrendered to him in cold blood without
hearing it out. Not even an undead abomination.
"You are an abomination to the Gods. Give me one reason why I
shouldn't kill you right this instance." He growled out his
question.
"Because I don't want to die!" She snapped out.
"You're an undead. You don't have a life to lose."
"I might not be alive but that doesn't mean I don't live."
"A valid point but you are still a member of this group of
vampires that have been terrorizing the surrounding country side.
For that I will kill you."
"A reluctant member." The vampire said resigned to herself,
making Quin pause in surprise.
"What do you mean reluctant?" He asked.
"I mean that I'm only together with these monsters to survive.
Look, if you let me up I'll tell you the whole story but it's
kind of hard to do when someone is almost twisting ones neck
around. I won't try anything."
Quin thought about it. He should kill her right now and get it
over with but his curiosity took the upper hand and he let go of
her. He let her sit down in front of him before speaking.
"Then tell me the story and it better be good."

The female vampire started talking. She said her name was Alica
and she had been a vampire for about one hundred and fifty years.
She was a true vampire, borne from a female vampire and sired by
a male one. Her parents had been hunted down when she was very
young and she had been forced to survive on her own. The only
help she had received was from an old blind beggar. He had also
taught her the values humans have and she had since then always
tried to live by them. She would find employment in small towns
and villages and try to live there in peace while keeping her
darker side secret. However, in the end, she was always forced to
leave and sometimes it wasn't her own choosing either.
That was what had happen the last time. She had been revealed and
forced to flee in front of a lynch mob. She had hooked up with
this group just to survive.

"Touching story but it's not good enough reason why I should
spare you. I'll try to make it quick." Quin said when she
finished. He started to rise so he could kill her when she
interrupted again.
"How about you just give me a head start out of this crypt while
you take care of the rest. Then if you track me down later and
kill me I at least got a chance."
"As I said you haven't given me a good enough reason yet."
"What if I'll help you kill the rest of vampires?" She asked.
"I don't think I'll need it but that will earn you my trust.
Still if I'll give a chance to run you better make sure I get
something out of it."

Alica looked at Quin and he could see him thinking about her
options.
"I can see from you clothing or rather lack there of, that you
are a bother of the Iron Monk Order." She finally said after a
few moments. She was right that it was easy to spot Quin's order
from his lack of clothes. His Fifth degree Gi consisted of a pair
of black bracers and a pair of moccasins made out of strips of
fabric wrapped around his feet and shins for protection. The only
other adornment on his body was a black and blue tattoo on her
chest and back. The order believed that they should bare their
bodies against all hardship. Free spirited and uninhibited the
monks feel as natural wearing little or nothing at all, as common
people felt about wearing ordinary garments. Therefore, none of
the higher-ranking monks ever wore clothing when they didn't have
to.
"Is it true that your order is very free spirited? That you are
supposed to try and experience and enjoy everything life has to
offer you?" Alica asked.
"That's true."
"Then how would you like to experience an undead?"
"Experience how?"
"Sexually I mean." She said. Quin raised his eyebrows
questionably and studied her features to see if she was trying to
deceive him in some way.
"You are telling me that if I spare your life now and give you a
chance to get a way I get to fuck you."
"Yes."
"And you don't mind."
"No, it's not the first time I let a man use my body to survive.
I've lived for almost two hundred years and I've tried my hand at
many professions during that time. Whore is just one of them."

Quin studied her. She was very attractive. She was just the type
that Quin would have enjoyed fucking if she had been alive.
However she was a vampire and for the good of all he should kill
her. On the other hand, his creed as an Iron Monk told him that
he should try to experience everything life had to offer and he
had never heard about someone having sex with a vampire before.
He didn't have any qualms about taking advantage of her sexually
or otherwise.
When grateful villagers and farmers offered their wives and
daughters to their saviors, noble paladins might decline out of
compassion and ethics. Quin gave them the fuck of their life. He
wasn't going to enjoy life to its fullest if he went around
passing up the chance for a warm female body to dump his seed in.
Besides, he could just fuck her and then kill her afterwards.

"All right then. Take off your clothes and let me see you." Quin
told Alica.
She just sighed deeply and untied the knot holding her vest
together, slipping it off and revealing a pale beautifully shaped
torso. Her breast was as Quin had noticed before on the small
side but then he now saw that she too was on the thin side with
her ribs clearly visible. Still the breasts were very pretty,
firm and pointy, almost like a teenagers budding mounds. Her
nipples had a bluish pink color, the same color he had seen lips
get when the temperature dropped during the winter season.
Quin reached out and cupped the left breast. She was cold to the
touch, though not like a corpse more like the feeling of cold
toes or fingers. He squeezed the breast gently and stroked his
thumb over her nipple. That was all it took for it to pop out
hard.
"Nice," Quin said as he leaned forward and took her other nipple
in his mouth. He just needed to touch it with his tongue for it
to become erect too.
He sucked and licked it while he pinched and twisted the other
one with his hand. He kept doing that for a moment but when Alica
started to moan, he sat back up.

When she saw the effect Quin's play with her breasts had had on
his cock, she couldn't hold back a gasp.
Quin was of mixed blood, elven and human but those who had seen
him hard would have as easily guessed that orc blood ran through
his veins.
Alica tore her gaze away from his groin in time to see him urging
her on with a nod.
She stood up and pulled down her leggings.
Sitting down Quin's eyes were level with her crotch and as her
leggings went down, he got quite an eyeful. Her pale mound was
split in the middle by her slit, the lips were slightly large and
the same color as her nipples. He saw that she was completely
devoid of hair down there. That was good; he liked his women that
way.
Quin wanted to reach out and play with a pussy lips but before he
managed, she stepped out of her leggings and sat down again.

When she sat down Quin just shrugged and stood up instead. He
took a step forward and thrust his cock towards her face.
"You know what to do," He said unnecessarily. No woman that gets
a cock shoved barely an inch from her face needed any words to
know what was expected from her.
Alica grabbed his shaft with both hands, gingerly stretched out
her tongue, and gave the head a long lick.
"That's it. Just watch those teeth." Quin told her with a grin.
The teeth comment made Alica giggle but she stifled it by
stuffing her mouth with the head.
After sucking on in a couple of seconds, she spat it out.
Instead, she started to lick all over his cock, coating both the
shaft and balls with a layer of spit.
Once she was satisfied, she took him in his mouth again. Sucking
and licking she started to bob her head, all the time jerking off
the part that didn't fit in her mouth.
She continue to suck him like this at a slowly increasing speed
for several minutes before stopping a spitting him out. She bent
forward, letting her mouth go to work on his balls sucking and
licking them while gently squeezing his shaft. She kept that up
for less than a minute before taking him in her mouth again and
swallowing him down until Quin felt his glands touch the back of
her mouth. Then she just kept going, slowly inching his cock down
her throat until her nose was buried in his pubes.

Quin looked down at her impressed. That was a first for him.
Plenty of women had manage to take him completely down their
throats before and none of his female students left his tutorage
without being able to accomplish the feat Alica just had done.
But not on the first try and never that easy. His students had
hours of gagging, chocking and tears behind them before they
could do what she had just done.
Alica slowly pulled out half again before pushing it back down.
She started to bob her head like this, sucking gently on the
outstroke, milking him with her throat. She continued with this
technique for over a minute before she pulled the cock out of her
mouth.
She looked up at Quin and smiled.
"Not having to breathe has its benefits. No woman are better or
has it easier deep throating than me," she told him with a cocky
grin.
"Is that so?" Quin answered and lifted an eyebrow skeptically.
"Yes, of course," Alica said a little miffed at Quin's skeptical
response at her statement, "I manage to get down your big log
without ant problem on the first try after all. There is no way I
will ever have any trouble taking a cock down my throat. Never
happened, never will."
"Really, want to prove that to me," Quin said with a smirk.
"Without a doubt," She answered with touch of anger in her voice.
"Then just relax."
He took hold of her head with both hands and gently forced it
backwards as far as he could so the opening of her mouth and
throat made a straight line. He made her sit down from her
kneeling position and stepped up close so he was standing above
her. Bending his hard cock down towards the floor Quin pushed it
in to her mouth and gently down her throat. When he bottomed out,
her lips wrapped around the base of his cock, he pulled up half
way again. He repeated this a couple of times. Alica's stuffed
face quickly got a triumphant look, clearly thinking that this
was all he had to come with.
Seeing that Quin took a tighter grip of her head and started to
fuck her throat in a steady pace by bending he's knees up and
down. It didn't take long before Alica started to struggle and
protesting around his cock. Quin ignored her and continued
fucking her like this for a few minutes despite her increasingly
strong struggles.

When he finally pulled out, Alica coughed for a moment before
looking up at Quin and saying. "That was really unpleasant."
"All my female students learn how to let me do that from start to
finish and they all have to breath," Quin told her with smile but
his eyes had a look of concern in them.
Alica sat quiet for a moment before she chuckled.
""All right, maybe I'm not the best but you have to admit that
I'm good," she said with a grin. In fact, Quin would say that she
was extremely good. She had after all managed to let him fuck her
throat with only a little trouble on the first try. That had only
happened three times before and those women had all been masters
in the order with the same inhuman control of their bodies that
Quin had.
Of course, they had managed it from start to finish and only one
of them had showed signs of any discomfort.
 "I'm however not one of you monks so I'd appreciate if you let
me do this my way." She said with a grin and took him in her
mouth again.
She soon had him down her throat again and began bobbing her head
up and down. Not completely like before, she always left what she
could fit in a masturbating fist outside her mouth. However, the
head never left her throat and on the down stroke, an equal
length of what she had in her mouth was lodge down her throat.
She sucked Quin like this for several minutes before his groans
showed that he was nearing his peak.

Alica reached around him with one hand and one of her fingers
soon found his brown hole but when she tried to push it in, he
proved to dry for her to succeed. She took his cock out of her
mouth and lifted up his balls before hunching down. A second
later Quin felt the wet tip of her tongue touching his hole. She
licked thoroughly around and on it before trying to push her
tongue inside. The muscle resisted at first but soon she had her
tongue up his ass.
Few women Quin knew of would willingly do what she just did and
none of them would do it to a man they knew had been out hiking
for some days with only leaves as sanitary aids.
Still Alica had a bit more riding on this fuck than most women so
she was undoubtedly willing to go to some lengths to make him
enjoy it. And enjoy it he did when he felt the tip of her tongue
move around the opening of his ass.
It didn't take long before she stopped and came out beneath him.
When she looked up at Quin and saw him looking at her with a
knowingly leer she made a disgusted face and a blush gave her
cheeks some color for the first time since Quin saw her.

Avoiding his eyes, she started to suck him again in the same way
as before. She soon had him nearing his peak again and when she
tried to push a finger up his butt again she didn't have any
trouble with his now well lubricated hole.
With a finger up his ass and her energetic sucking on his cock
Quin suddenly found himself flooding her mouth with his seed.
He started cuming on the upstroke with only the head at the back
of her throat so a lot of the first jet flowed back filling her
mouth while the rest ran down her throat. Alica quickly swallowed
the mouthful at the same time as she pushed him down her throat
again so when the next cum-shot came, she had her nose pressed in
to his pubic hair and his length completely buried down her
throat.
Quin grabbed her head and tried to press himself even deeper down
while he shoot the rest of his load directly down her stomach.
Alica didn't do anything during his climax, just held him her in
her throat. The kneading provided by her swallowing throat
muscles was enough to enhance the sensations of his orgasm.
After he stopped cuming Quin still held Alica's face pushed into
his crotch, keeping his cock down her throat. They stayed like
that until he started to relax after his climax and the final
twitches in his cock had passed.
Alica never showed any signs of objecting to his treatment. When
he let go of her head she only pulled him out of her throat
keeping him in her mouth and started to suck him clean, Quin had
to admit that there were some very nice benefits about not having
to breathe.

Alica didn't spit him out until he had gone completely flaccid
again.
"You seemed to enjoy that," she said with a smile as she looked
up at him.
"Yes, it was very nice," Quin answered with a grin. In fact it
had been one of the best blowjobs he had received in a long time.

"To bad, you didn't save yourself. Looks like this was the only
thing you got to enjoy, " Alica complained with a smug voice, not
sounding at all sorry about it.
"You forget that I am a monk trained in mastering my mind and
body, all of my body."
With that reply, Quin's cock slowly rose again until it stood
just as erect and hard as before they began.
"Oh my..." slipped out from Alica's lips and she couldn't stop
her self from touching it to see if it was true.
"Now it's my turn," Quin said as he kneeled down. He laid Alica
down on her back, bent down, and sucked quickly on one of her
nipples. Sliding down he spread her legs before lying down
between them, his face only an inch from her mound.
With his thumbs, he spread her lower lips as wide apart as he
could, opening up her red moist pussy in all its glory for his
eyes.
Extending his tongue, he gave it a long slow lick. Just as every
were else she was a little bit colder than a normal human and her
taste was a bit more spicy than usual but Quin quite liked it.
Having tasted her he began letting his talented tongue go to work
on her most sensitive parts.

Quin knew he was good at the task. He had been trained in it by a
master of the iron monks after all. She had been the first female
sensei to train him and like all masters of the iron monks she
had taught her student to master every possible part of their
bodies and excel at ever aspect of that part's possible usage.
Teaching sexual skills not only taught the student to grant
pleasure but it was also a good way for the student to learn how
to focus his Ki under a very distracting situation. Besides, it
was also one of the benefits of being a master of the iron monks.
Quin had spent countless hours between his sensei's legs while
she showed him how to eat out a woman in the best way.
His control of his tongue had grown enormously under her
tutelage. He had learned how to lick both the tip of his nose and
chin and how to make his tongue hard enough so you could break
small sticks over it. But that hadn't been enough; his sensei had
only been satisfied when he could force her to orgasm with in
half an hour using only his tongue. That meant that he could make
normal woman cum in a matter of minutes.

Quin was mashing his upper teeth against Alica's clitoris he
fucked her hole with his tongue when he recognized from her
sounds that she was nearing her climax. Hearing it he stopped his
oral ministrations.
Alica made a disappointed sound but before she could protest more
articulate, he had slipped on top on her, his cock bouncing
against her pussy.
The feeling of the head touching her pussy lips made her gasp
aloud and when he entered her, she moaned loudly.
Quin pushed himself inside of her slow and steady, each inch
bringing out a moan. The deeper he went, Quin could hear each
moan be more out of pain than pleasure, though when he bottomed
out, his shaft completely buried inside her, her moan become one
of sheer delight and he could feel the muscles in her pussy
convulsing indicating the orgasm he had denied her with his
tongue.
Her pussy gripped his cock hard. It felt far too tight to belong
to a woman who claimed to been a whore. Though Quin wasn't
complaining, instead he just marveled at the feeling when he
started to fuck it.
With his stamina and mastery over his body he could have pro
longed the fuck for hours. However, he still had a crypt full of
other vampires to deal with so he had to satisfy himself with
just letting himself cum as quickly as a normal man. His reason
was the same when he settled for only enjoying her in this
position and no others, much to his own sorrow.
Not that either of them found it unsatisfying, Alica wrapped her
legs around him urging him on by slapping her feet against his
ass, their groans and moans competing in volume with each others.
He had been humping away between her legs for a sixth of an hour
when Alica climaxed with a howl. She stabbed her nails in his
shoulders, drawing bloody furrows on his back. Quin had time to
think that it was strange how he could block swords with his bare
arms but women still manage to scratch his back when they came
before Alica's orgasm pulled him too over the edge. They both
tensed up, joined together while Quin pumped her womb full of his
seed.

When it was over Quin collapsed on top of her before rolling over
beside her.
"Wow, that was great," Alica said astonished.
"That it was", Quin agreed with a grin. No matter how many times
he had took a woman to her peak and back he couldn't help feeling
proud of himself.
They laid there for a minute just getting their strength back
before Alica sat up and wrapped her arms around her knees.
"So..." she said and sighed deeply, "will you now give me a
chance to get a way?"
"If you help me destroy the rest of the undead here, then yes."
Quin answered before he too sat up.
He looked at Alica. For the first time she only looked like human
girl, a very young and afraid girl. Quin suddenly felt pity for
her but he took control of his feelings and hardened his soul.
She was an undead vampire and had to be destroyed for the good of
all.
"You know that you'll only get a couple of days head start at the
most. I will track you down and kill you," he said. Now it was
his turn to sigh.
"Why?"
"Why! Because you are a vampire. You have to drink the lifeblood
of intelligent beings to sustain your unnatural existence. I
can't let you live to prey on innocent people."
"What if I told that I didn't have to drink blood to live."
"What if I told you that I was really the great wyrm that had
come down from my place on the nightly sky," Quin said with
mocking tones.
"I am serious. The father of my clan is said to have accidentally
fed on a succubus. Since then the females of my clan can live on
other life giving fluids than blood." Alica told Quin.
"Other life giving fluids? What are those?" Quin asked.
"Let's just say that blood is thicker than water but thinner
than..." Alica said cryptically before looking meaningly at his
waist. Quin followed her eyes to his groin looking confused
before his face suddenly shone up in understanding.
"You mean you can sustain yourself by drinking a man's..." Quin
said astonished but was interrupted by Alica.
"Yes, that's exactly right," she said a bit embarrassed.
"Tell me then if you now feel such sympathies and kinship with
humans why you haven't stopped drinking blood and fed this other
way. You could have married and gotten you sustenance that way or
you could get it from whoring."
Alica sighed and shook her head, Quin suddenly saw a tear roll
down her cheek.
"I wish it was so easy. Oh, I admit that there where nights when
I sold myself to men that my customers filled my belly enough to
sate my hunger but  most of the men that paid for my body was
more interested in my other two holes. I have some pride; I would
not want to sink so low that I'd be forced to scoop the dregs men
left me from my ass and cunt." Alica explained resigned. "As for
marriage, well even if vampires only need very little in the way
of drink to survive, a glass or two every other day, no single
man could supply the amount I would need to live. Blood is easier
to come by; beside I prefer its taste."
"I see. Still the only way I could let you live were if I was
certain that from now you would only take your nourishment from
the seed of men." Quin said. "Are you willing to give me an oath
that you will, even if it means that you will have to feed on
what men deposit in all your openings?"
"I don't want to die," Alica said and stifled a sob, "I'd gladly
give you my word and do anything to see that I didn't"
"It has to be an oath on something important to you so that I
know that you'll never break it."
"It will."
"I see," Quin said and sighed. He was touched by Alica's
sincerity and he was forced to admit that he was a bit taken in
by the girl. He thought of her as a girl even though she was
older than he was. If what she claimed were true then he would
spare her life even if it wasn't the right thing to do. But to do
so he felt that he would need to find a way to ensure that he and
others could monitor her so she never broke her oath. That he
felt was the hard part and he had some serious thinking to do.
"All right, I won't make any promises but I'll think about it and
if I feel you can be trusted and I've come up with solutions to a
few of my objections then I will spare you. Otherwise I will just
give you a few days head start before tracking you down and
killing you. Understand," Quin said and stood up. "Good," he
continued without waiting for an answer, "now let's get busy
clearing out this crypt."
Alica still looked nervous when she got up but Quin couldn't help
noticing a hopeful smile on her lips while she dressed.
Thinking hard, Quin forced open the iron gate and headed deeper
into the crypt with Alica following him right behind.



Epilog:

Quin paused on the crest of the hill to enjoy the magnificent
view of the large valley below him. Despite him nearing his
second century, undoubtedly thanks to his elfish ancestry, he
felt as spry as a thirty year old, another trait he could thank
his elfish side for.
The golden afternoon sun seemed to enhance the colors of the
green grass, the blue river and all the spring flowers.
Especially the white and pink of the apple blossoms stood out
from the green. A large village lay at the other end of the
valley some fifteen miles away, barely visible in the haze. Small
farms were scattered all about the valley floor, some had even
climbed the walls of the valley.
The only large buildings beside the village in the valley were a
water mill and a rectangular building made of sun-dried bricks in
the middle of the valley near a crossroad.
It was a small Iron Monk monastery Quin had helped an old student
set up after she received her fifth degree and became a Master of
the order.
She and a few other monks and students now lived here, providing
shelter for travelers and protecting the people in the valley.
It was also Quin's goal for the day. He was looking forward to
spend some days in the monastery's comfort and with the other
monks as company.
Taking a refreshing breath Quin continued walking.

It was nearing the evening meal when he neared the monastery.
Instead of following the road to the path that went up to the
front entrance, Quin got of the road and on to a trail, he knew
headed to a side door. The side door led out to an apple grove
situated right next to the monastery wall. Quin knew his old
student; the sensei of the monastery had a habit of sitting next
to the door meditating.
As he cleared the last bend of the trail before the monastery,
Quin saw two persons near the door. One was a beautiful naked
woman dressed only in the same black Gi as himself. The other was
a young man or rather boy barley out of his teens.
The boy was pulling up his pants and the woman was sitting down
from her kneeling position she had been in the moment before.
Quins smiled to himself and slipped off the trail to give the two
a couple of moments to collect themselves.
Soon after the monastery opened, it became a custom for the
valley's young boys to sneak up to it whenever they passed. They
all knew that the beautiful female monk that ran it would give
them a blowjob if she wasn't too busy. Many a teenage crush had
found release between the lips of the object of the affection.
For the rest they had just found release between her lips.
It had by now been a well-known secret among the men of the
valley for over a century. A secret no woman knew of and that the
men only shared between close friends and their own sons once
they reached a certain age.

The young boy strutted past Quin, proudly whistling a tune. When
he was gone around the bend, Quin resumed his walk up the trail.
His stomach growled loudly in anticipation of the evening meal.
Quin chuckled at the thought that his old student up ahead had
already had part of her evening meal.
It felt good seeing Alica again. It had been a long time since he
last visited her and he was looking forward to it. One part of
him was especially looking forward to it.
It was already hard.