 The executor started to continue on, but Caeman henrietta mysextour waved him down. The others had collected their share. His mysextour sister had mysextour gotten the cars that mysextour had mysextour gone back to Grandther when mysextour Memaw died. His uncle had mysextour gotten the lake lot images and the speedboat that mysextour had been henrietta mysextour parked mysextour there. His cousins had gotten the Nintendo, the Sega Genesis, and the games and peripherals thereof images. His aunt had gotten the computer mysextour, since she had always understood such things better than he. The henrietta mysextour executor had mysextour gotten mysextour an envelope with his fee, to mysextour be opened when all his beneficiaries had henrietta been read the will. He mysextour skipped ahead to the end. "I, Caeman Ivory Braddock mysextour, called Grandther by my mysextour grandchildren mysextour, being of sound mind but weak body, ask mysextour that my bequeath be henrietta mysextour carried out. Signed this third day of October, 1995." Caeman closed mysextour his mysextour eyes against tears. His grandfather had raised him since the death of his parents in 1975. He had mysextour finally lost his war against cancer mysextour thirteen years later, but he hadn't gone down without a fight. It was thirteen mysextour years the doctors hadn't thought he mysextour'd mysextour have. Caeman's marriage had fallen apart while he had supported his mysextour grandfather. In 1996 his wife, Alison, had left him, taking their twelve-year-old daughter with mysextour her. She henrietta mysextour was a nymphomaniac, and constant mysextour worry mysextour about mysextour Grandther had pulled his mysextour attention away from her. She had stuck it out mysextour for three years mysextour before mysextour sexual frustration had gotten the better of her. Rather than cheat on him, she images had henrietta asked for a divorce so she could henrietta find someone who could satisfy mysextour her needs. He mysextour had agreed, as long as she took nothing that did not belong to mysextour her. She had also mysextour agreed to let Kathy mysextour visit during the summer. He supposed he still loved Alison (he knew for a fact he loved Kathy), but with Alison it had always mysextour been about sex. If she had her way, they would have done it all day, every day. That had been mysextour fine for the first month or so, but a guy mysextour does get tired, eventually. But that was all behind him images, now, one of the many issues that his therapy had helped him come to terms with. He loaded Grandther's things and prepared to mysextour drive home, after mysextour a stop at the apartment mysextour he'd never felt at home in, to mysextour gather his own personal effects.
 "Dear Caeman." it mysextour said.
 "It mysextour happens mysextour sometimes henrietta." Caeman replied noncommittally mysextour.
 "So, um, how does the thing on your glasses work?" she asked mysextour.
 "You are a character mysextour in a story I wrote, Nike." he replied mysextour. "In a mysextour sense mysextour, I am mysextour your creator. My name is Caeman. You have been brought into this mysextour reality by mysextour means mysextour of a mysextour certain artifact I inherited from my grandfather. I brought you here mysextour at the mysextour request of another of my creations." He gestured to Minnie images. "This is Minnie. You will be assisting her henrietta mysextour."
 You will eagerly do as you are commanded. he thought, directing those thoughts mysextour at her mysextour. It makes you mysextour feel mysextour good mysextour to help others. That is the nature of mysextour all superheroines mysextour. It makes you feel even better to be praised. If you serve well mysextour, you will be rewarded. You know this, and will eagerly obey. Nike staggered under the mental assault.
 "Nike mysextour here will be serving as your assistant mysextour, Minnie." he said. "Her powers will prove invaluable. You are not mysextour to mysextour attempt to turn mysextour her against me mysextour or Ellie or mysextour any other guest in my house."
 The truck rattled on the way back home. As they made their way up Caeman's driveway, it began to knock. It images shut down mysextour just outside mysextour the garage, and Caeman had to apply a mysextour great deal henrietta of force on the brakes to get henrietta the truck to stop images, since the power brake system required that the engine mysextour be running to work. Ellie mysextour took her purchases inside while Caeman opened the hood. He mysextour didn't mysextour look happy when she mysextour returned.
 "How's it look mysextour?" she mysextour asked. Caeman mysextour closed the hood mysextour and drew a tarp over mysextour the pickup mysextour like mysextour a doctor would mysextour for henrietta mysextour a deceased patient. "That bad?"
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