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his need, his lust. And perhaps something of Vicki’s. He is almost automatic. He does not have to concentrate, does
not strain, feels no pain. Well, perhaps a little pain - the final sweet agony which is his reward, the incentive to start the
sequence all over again.’
While he had talked they both had watched the screen, had seen Vicki collapse on to Garrison, their bodies
shuddering in unison. Mina’s nipples had hardened along with a return of Schroeder’s erection. ‘Maybe this time,
Thomas,’ she said, moving her hand a little faster, more rhythmically, and opening her shapely legs until his hand slid
into her moistness.
‘Perhaps,’ he answered, ’but I don’t think so.’
She pouted as only a German girl can. ‘You’re not even trying!’
‘No, I don’t think I am. They have me fascinated.- See how they cling, drenched in sweat and revelling in it? And
Vicki, she—’
‘She is surprising even you now, eh?’
‘That boy,’ said Schroeder, changing the subject in a moment, ’could be an image of myself at his age. He has the
vigour.’
‘Perhaps he’s just been saving it?’
‘Oh, yes, I imagine so,’ Schroeder nodded. ‘Enforced abstinence. His blindness. But the way they cling - like real
lovers . . .’
‘Love at first sight?’
‘They can’t get enough of each other. They feel they should be able to stretch their skins flat, one on top of the
other. She would like to be able to draw him in utterly, his entire being, body and soul. And he desires so to be drawn.
They want to explore, to know everything, now.’
‘Thomas, I—’ She was beginning to sound tired.
‘No, no!’ he quietened her. ‘We must see this out. There’s an unusual excitement here. Listen, Mina, you talked
about Vicki being a nice girl. Well so she is, but—’ He paused. ‘Before the night is out, Garrison will enter her by the
third route. And it will be a first for both of them.’
‘No, you are mistaken,’ she told him. ‘Only lovers in the fullest—’
They will!’
‘No, by 3.00 it will be over. They’ll sleep like babes.’
’5.00 at the earliest,’ Schroeder insisted. ‘And it will be as I said.’
‘Are you wagering?’
‘Double your normal cheque if I’m wrong!’
‘Ah! You fed him some of your mushrooms, of course!’
‘No, I had the mushrooms.’
‘Then it must soon be over.’
‘Mina, you are quite wrong.’
‘But how can you be so sure?’
‘Because I remember how it was, Mina! I remember it so well.’
‘Double my normal cheque? 1 she said after a while.
He merely nodded, his eyes glued to the screen. He knew it was money she would never collect...

Chapter Four

‘Day Two, Richard,’ said Schroeder over a very late breakfast. ‘And the sun already high, and we haven’t even
started yet. So much for late nights and demon drink eh?’
 ‘Yes,’ Garrison agreed, his mind dull in a drained body. But the food was good and plenty, and he knew that
strength would soon flow back into him. He thought of last night and of Vicki, and begrudged the three and a half
hours they had slept (died?) in each other’s arms before he had returned to his own room.
Nor had he left her any too soon, for within a half-hour he had been awake again, this time at the insistence of
’nurse’, a crusty old Fraulein (Frau?) whose word was apparently law. He remembered wondering what she would have
thought if she’d entered his room an hour earlier - or worse, Vicki’s room!