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Amanda’s silent wishes were ignored. The creature’s languid movements showed it was tired, drained. In a moment the shadow limbs were gone, reabsorbed into the stone. Amanda sighed, but her brooding was interrupted when her cooling skin shivered against the air in the room. Then she looked down and blushed. There she was on Tony’s bedroom floor completely naked. She frantically looked around for her ruined clothes, but they were gone, taken by the creature.
Amanda stumbled to her feet and took off for her bedroom. Thankfully she didn’t go in front of any large windows which looked out onto the streets below, and in a few minutes she was dressed. A quick glance at a clock toward her there was only thirty minutes left until Tony came back from work. She’d been engrossed within t
