said.
"Couple days?" she said with a laugh.
"You asked," I muttered.
"You were gone from our world for a good couple of weeks before I got yanked over
here."
"Weeks?" I whispered.
"At least two, maybe almost three," Crista said. "Time passes different here, I guess. I
was just wondering because I've been otherwise engaged during the last day or so."
"Noticed," I said in a grumble.
"Jealous much?" she said with a grin.
"No," I grumbled some more. "It's just that I never figured upon running into someone I
know here. Where's your buddy Ken from?"
"Denver," she said, as she looked over at Ken. He had already found a small Tuatha
Dé woman and was standing up, moving the woman up and down over his groin area.
Crista gave another laugh and waved at Ken. Ken waved back. The Tuatha Dé woman
rolled her eyes in something that might have been ecstasy but I couldn't be totally sure.
"And he isn't my buddy," she added.
"Oh," I said. "I just thought..." I made some lewd gestures with my hands to get my
point across.
"That's not exactly how it works out here."
"How does it work?"
"You have to drink the water."
"Like in Mexico?" I said.
"Except Montezuma doesn't get his revenge," she said. "Where are you going? In
general, I mean?"
"Here, actually," I said. "The magician we're looking for, the one I'm supposed to kill,
he was last seen here."
"In Tara?"
I nodded.
"Don't blame him," she said. "But I haven't heard about any magician in town."
I chuckled. "You haven't heard much past Ken's moaning and groaning."
Ken moaned and groaned loudly to emphasize my point.
Crista only shrugged. "True. But can I go with you?"
"To where?" I said.
"To wherever it is your going?"
"Wish I knew," I said. "We go wherever the sorcerer went."
"But can I go?"
"I don't see why not," I said. "But why would you want to go with me?"
"It's like you said," she said, "I never expected to run into someone I know here.
Besides, if I'm with you, I won't want to just have sex."
"No?" I said, somewhat disappointed.
"No," she said, not catching my disappointment.
"Just let me go check with my guide," I told her, hooking my thumb in the direction of
Cu. "We only have two ponies."
"That isn't a pony," Crista said, examining the little horse who had stood quietly beside
me during our entire conversation.
"What is it then?"
"Looks like a Great Dane," she said.
The pony snorted his disapproval of such a title and turned up his nose at her.
"You insulted him," I said, while rubbing my pony's soft ear, and missing Fractious the
mule all of a sudden.
"Sorry, pony," Crista said. "Will you go ask your guide if I can go, too?"
"Going," I said, going.
Cu was otherwise engaged, as was everybody in this town, with masturbating over a
threesome consisting of two beautiful Tuatha Dé women and what appeared to be a
woman with goat legs. I cleared my throat, looking away while Cu quickly put his schwanz back
in his pants. "What?" he said as I continued to stare.
I shook my head and said, "Can I bring a friend?"
"No," Cu said sternly, trying very hard to keep his eyes on me and not on the orgy going
on just a foot away from him, and pretty much everywhere else you turned in this town.
I pouted. "Why not?"
"Because I said so," Something over my shoulder apparently caught his eye for he
started to drift in that direction.
I turned around and followed him. Crista was already engaged in another sexual act, this
time with a man half her size who seemed to be enjoying the fact that he was screwing a human
being. "Yeah, I'm screwing a human! That's right, bitches!" he was yelling out as he slapped her
butt like she was a rodeo bull.
Cu's eyes rolled back into his head and he stumbled back into me. I leaned down and
caught him before he could fall over. I up-righted him, pointed and said, "That's my friend."
"Yes," Cu said immediately. "Yes. Bring her. I like her."
"I don't know if she's that kind of girl," I said as I watched her apparently being
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