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Author:     Kyros
Title:      The Demon Inside (Seer, ep. 2)
Part:       4 of 6
Universe:   Seer
Summary:    This is the sequel to episode one, I See Dying People, of
			Seer Episode one ends with Melissa, Alexandra and Philip in 
			trouble as they have ended up in the claws of the two demons 
			Keshet and Gail.
Keywords:   mf, mF, Ff, MF, fant, slow, mag, nc, rape, caution, Fdom, viol, reluc, solo
Email:      kyros@hoakz.com
Asstr:      http://www.asstr.org/~kyros
SOL:        http://storiesonline.net/auth/Kyros
Disclaimer: http://hoakz.hopto.org:8080/kyros/wiki/Disclaimer

* Keywords and summary are for all six parts

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Part 4

Melissa was lying on top of her bed.  She was reading.  Across the room
Alexandra was doing the same, or at least Melissa thought so.  Her mind
kept wandering to Alexandra.  She had seemed different this morning.  Of
course, she had been kidnapped last night, but there seemed to be
something else going on as well.  Had she seen something between Melissa
and Dawn, and felt jealous?  Melissa warmed at the thought; her sexy
roommate being jealous of her and another woman.  That said a lot of
things, like for instance that Alexandra was seeing other women as
competition, not to mention seeing Melissa in a romantic light.  Or was
something else going on?

"What are you thinking of?" Alexandra said from across the room.

When Melissa looked over at her bed she saw Alexandra had turned around
and was facing the foot end of the bed.  She was resting on her elbow
and watching Melissa with curious, shimmering eyes.

"I... nothing," Melissa mumbled and tried to concentrate on her book
again, however Alexandra reached behind her head and untied the hair
knot on the back of her head, causing clumps of red hair to spill out
over her shoulders.

Melissa gasped but managed to conceal her gasp as a sigh.  It wasn't
much better, but it did at least have a little ambiguity to it. 
Alexandra was playing with her hair and while Melissa did everything in
her power not to look up at her, Alexandra did nothing to hide that she
was staring at Melissa.

"What?" Melissa asked.

Alexandra didn't reply but instead she unbuttoned the top button in her
shirt.  Melissa's eyes widened and she lowered her gaze again.  She
wasn't shocked at what Alexandra had done, but she was worried that some
of her thoughts might have been so easily read by her roommate,
especially since she wasn't sure herself what she was thinking about
her.  Not yet, she thought.  Not so soon.

She glanced at Alexandra again.  She was down to her third button now. 
"What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" said Alexandra, her voice a little
unstable.

Like you're getting undressed, Melissa thought.  There was nothing
strange with that.  They were after all roommates and girls.  There
should be no problem with that at all.  When Melissa could hear the
unmistakable sound of a zipper being opened she stiffened and turned
facing Alexandra.  Her roommate was getting out of her jeans.

"Care to help me?" Alexandra asked with a sly grin.

"Help you with what?"

"What does it look like I need help with?"

"You tell me," Melissa said.

Alexandra laughed and pushed her jeans down.  "Too late now."  She
pushed her panties down after them.  "And I don't know you well enough
to let you help me with these."  Her clothes were bunched up around her
ankles and as she spread her thighs Melissa felt a blush rising on her
cheeks.

"Getting a shower?" she asked and turned on her belly, holding the book
in front of her, pretending she was still reading.  The desk was
obstructing her line of sight, and she could hide the blush on her face
from Alexandra.

Melissa could hear a wet sound from Alexandra's bed.  She stole a quick
glance at the other girl.  Alexandra was beating off.  Melissa sat in
her bed.  She got on her feet.  Her eyes couldn't help but taking in the
vision of Alexandra on her bed.  She had her feet pulled up, and her
legs parted widely, her pussy wide open between them.  Her skin, white
like cream, made her orange pubic hairs even more pronounced, and the
slit hidden in them seemed even redder.

"My God, Alex, what are you doing?" Melissa said.

Alexandra gazed at her through half open eyes.

"Are you okay?" Melissa continued.

Alexandra didn't reply.

Melissa found she had to lean on the desk or her knees would give away
and land her sprawling on the floor.  Alexandra is touching herself --
my roommate is beating off in front of me!

Alexandra was sliding her fingers through her slit from the bottom where
they were buried inside her up until she caught her clit between her
fingertips and massaged it gently.  Melissa saw her little bud
protruding from under its hood and she felt her mouth going dry.

She looked into Alexandra's eyes and the heavy-lidded, wanton gaze she
met there made her already wet pussy gush with new juices.  She realized
she would have to change her panties before she headed to afternoon
classes, but that was just secondary to the alarming insight that she
wanted her roommate, wanted to eat her pussy, wanted to make her come,
or at least... touch her.

I shouldn't watch, she thought hazily.  It's private and I... shouldn't.
 She moved over to the door on wobbly legs.  I should leave and let her
finish undisturbed.  She grabbed the doorknob.  What if someone passed
in the corridor outside? She stopped and looked back into the room.

Alexandra had parted her legs even more and her hips pushed into the
air.  Her face wore a mask of pleasure while both her hands were busy
between her legs.  She had unbuttoned her shirt and pushed it aside
allowing Melissa to see how her nipples stood straight out.

''She looks delicious,'' Melissa thought breathlessly.  ''Shit!''  The
fact that she felt her mouth watering, and her lips tingle while she
watched Alexandra's nipples made her swallow and turn away.  ''Fuck! 
I'm thinking of my roommate -- female roommate -- as tasty, and I
want... DAMN IT!''

She turned the doorknob with all intentions to leave the room when she
heard an involuntary moan from Alexandra.  She turned again.  My
roommate is masturbating right in front of me, she thought.  She
realized she was no better herself; both her palms had somehow cupped
her breasts, squeezing her nipples through her bra, and her thighs were
grinding together.  Please Alexandra, stop this insanity!

Alexandra didn't seem to hear Melissa's silent pledge, and instead she
uttered a series of soft whines, and her breathing became labored. 
Melissa ground her thighs together again and squirmed with the resulting
pleasure.

She wanted to get back to her bed, or even better, Alexandra's bed, she
wanted to lie down, get naked and join her roommate.

I can't take this, she thought, not now!  She wanted to tell Alexandra
to stop, but her words caught in her mouth.  Alexandra was so beautiful
it made Melissa's chest hurt.  Her slender legs were open wide, her hips
pushed at least a couple of inches free of the bed below, pushed towards
Melissa, as if Alexandra was making an offer to her.  And what a
delicious offer!  Alexandra's was grinding her fingertips into herself
hard.

A feral sound escaped her.  It was a mix of a groan and a gasp, even a
cry, and her body bucked as her hands started to pick up speed.

Melissa knew she should leave Alexandra and stop ogling her, still her
body refused to obey and her imagination was no better.

She is so beautiful! Melissa thought and gasped, "Goddamnit!"

Alexandra was staring down at her hands as they rubbed faster, making
her pussy lips and fingers touch with a slapping sound.  She held her
breath as if she was afraid to breath or the pleasure would go away. 
Then her jaws moved several times, her head rolled back, her body
arched.  One gasp escaped her, then another.  She was taking deep
breathes.  Her free hand was squeezing one of her nipples.  Her body was
shaking and twisting while she fought to reach the peak.

Melissa forced a hand under the waistline of her trousers.  A part of
her mind screamed to her to stop, she didn't listen.

Alexandra's feet slid apart then she pushed them together again and
forced her hips into the air.  Her breathing caught for several seconds
while her hips and belly was undulating and her hand moved in a blur.

Melissa squeezed her breast while her hand slid into her panties.  Her
fingers stroked over her sensitive pleasure-bud and while she watched
Alexandra stroking herself Melissa felt her body catching up
surprisingly fast.  Alexandra squirmed and whined.  Melissa's hand
rubbed as much as her constrained trousers allowed.  Alexandra fell on
her side.  A shivering, prolonged whine announced the arrival of her
climax.

Melissa kept her eyes lowered while she stroked herself.  She could hear
Alexandra gasping but finally her breathing slowed.  The only sound in
the room was that of Melissa's hand in her trousers.  Was Alexandra
watching her now?

Just a little bit more.  She didn't want to look up.  Oh, please!  She
just wanted to come.  Fast!  Now!  Get it over with and run!  Then she
felt her orgasm clashing into her like a giant wave.  She was surprised,
shocked, at the strength of it.  She tried to keep silent, and keep
still.  She felt her fingers sliding over her wet skin.  She could hear
how wet she was now, even over the rustle of her clothes.  Alexandra
could probably hear too.  She didn't care.  All that mattered was that
she kept rubbing, kept the pleasure coming.

"Yesss!" she hissed.  Her head flew backwards, banging into the door.

The realization of what she had done dawned upon her.  She opened her
eyes and stared right into Alexandra's wide-open, green eyes.  She
swallowed, but there was no shock in Alexandra's eyes, no rejection,
only hunger.  They kept the glance for a few seconds before Melissa
pulled her hand out of her trousers.  It was wet and slippery with her
juices.  "I... I'm sorry."

Alexandra got up from her bed.  "I'm not."

Melissa got her towel from her bed.  "I am!"

"I can feel you're still hungry."  Alexandra caught up with her and
cupped a hand over one of her breasts.  "Don't go yet."

"What?"  Melissa backed towards the door.

"Lets do it," Alexandra said and cupped her other hand over Melissa's
crotch.  "You, me, on the bed.  Lets do it.  I know you want it."

"No!"

Melissa's back slammed into the door.  She reached behind her and
managed to get the door opened.  Without saying another word she stepped
out of the room and escaped.

-----

Melissa was in shock.  What had she done?  And more importantly -- or at
least it was an easier question to ask right now -- what had Alexandra
been up to?  If her roommate had wanted to seduce her...  Melissa
shivered at the thought.  And what do I want?  She didn't have an answer
to that.  Somehow she felt that something very serious was wrong with
Alexandra.

Just as she passed Midwinter Garden, a park in northern Riverside -- she
assumed the name was because it had lots of things that would be green
even in mid-winter.  Being a native New Yorker the deeper irony in the
name didn't hit her, she'd never experienced a winter in south
Louisiana.

"Hey," Melissa heard a male voice calling and as she looked up she
realized Philip was walking further down the road in the park.

"Hey!  Philip," Melissa called.  "You are just the person I wanted to
talk to."

He smiled at her.  "Is that so?"

"Yeah, listen," she walked over to him.  "I need to ask you something."

"Yeah?"

"Uh, yeah, well... I was just curious... about Alex."

"Why do you ask me then?  She's your roommate."

"Well, you see... I think she's taking her kidnapping pretty badly, ever
since she came back she's been strange and I've... had this feeling,"
she trailed off.

"So, what happened?"

Melissa blushed, "I... It wasn't something you'd go around talking
about... It's just... did you ever get the impression she was an
exhibitionist?  Or... or maniac... sex... maniac?"

"Alex?  God no, she's more like the flower and romance girl.  You've got
her totally wrong."

"Maybe not."

"Yeah?"

"She kind of... she.. came on to me."

There was an awkward moment of silence.

"Alex is a reasonable person, just talk to her, tell her how you feel
and she'll understand."

"Or something is totally wrong with her.  She undressed in front of
me... and... did it... to herself," the last word was said in a whisper.

"She did?  I.... I mean... okay, listen, I'll talk to her, okay?  I
understand this could be very... upsetting for you."

"If she comes on to you too," Melissa said.  "I just want you to know
that I think she's still suffering from shock or something.  She will
probably regret anything that happens once she snaps out of this."

"What?  God Melissa, I don't even think of Alex that way...  If
something is up with her, I'll find out what and help her solve it. 
Don't worry, okay?"

 "Okay."

-----

The first chance Philip had to talk to Alexandra undisturbed was when he
saw her by one of the docks by the Annex piers.  She was putting away
the gears from the boat trip from that afternoon.  He walked towards her
and just as she noticed him coming he realized he had no clue how to
start the 'talk.'

It was not his business what she did or didn't do with her roommate, was
it?  But Melissa had seemed disturbed, maybe even pissed.  He owned it
to Alexandra, as a friend, to tell her that she was going to far, and he
should make sure she was okay.  After all, she'd been kidnapped just the
other day and no one really knew what those guys had done to her.

"Hi there," he said frowning at the squeak of his voice.  This would be
hard.

"Hello," Alexandra replied and lifted some heavy looking diving gear
into the boat.

"Let me..." Philip started but his words trailed off when Alexandra's
head disappeared into the boat.

"I got it," she called from inside.  "Why don't you join me, this will
take a little while."

"Okay," he said and jumped onto the boat deck and climbed into the boat
after her.  "This is a pretty small boat," he said and looked around the
minimal cabin.

"Most of the time we're on deck, this is mainly for storage and... if we
need to sleep."

The last was said with a shimmer in her eyes and Philip had to lower his
gaze.  Melissa seemed to be right, he figured.  Was Alexandra coming on
to him?

"What did you want to talk about?" Alexandra continued while stowing
away the gear.

"Well," Philip said and sat on the bunk, "Melissa talked to me before,
and... I think she was a bit upset, or maybe spooked.  I... I don't know
how to break this... but I've kinda had a hunch about you for some time
and she kinda confirmed it... I just want you to think about stuff...
you understand?"

Alexandra was looking at him now, one eyebrow raised.  "Do I understand?
 Honestly, not much... what is it that you want Philip?"  She sat beside
him on the minimal bunk, her thighs touching his.

The tone of her voice made him more sure Melissa was right.  He moved
away from her.  The last thing he wanted to do was to hurt his friend.

"I just wanted you to know that Melissa was a bit upset, or shocked...
and that as your friend I wanted you to know that, so you don't mess up
with your roommate."

"You mean because I offered to sleep with her?"

"She gave no details, but I'm guessing that's probably it."

"So she is upset or maybe you are?"

"Me?  You didn't do anything to me, it's Melissa..."

"Maybe that's upsetting you?  I didn't do anything?"

"I think of you as a friend."

"Want me to be more than a friend?" Alexandra asked.  She was leaning
into Philip now, her face close to his, her eyes shining.  "Want to have
a go as well?"

"Alex!" Philip got on his feet.  "I've been your friend for as long as I
can remember."

Alexandra got on her feet too.  The cabin was too cramped for Philip to
be able to go anywhere and when she pushed him backwards he lost his
balance and fell back down on the bunk.

"Hey!" he called out.  "What..."

She straddled him and held him down.  "Come on," she mumbled.  "I know
what you want."  She ground her crotch into his while pulling his shirt
open.

"No Alexandra!" he protested and grabbed her wrists.  "This is not what
I want."

Even though he held her hands, her hips were still free to move and they
did, caressing her crotch against his.  "I know what you want," she
continued.  "Don't you wish we were naked now?  That I was stroking my
hot, wet..."

"Alexandra!" he said.  "I don't want to hear any mmmmm..."

She bent down and kissed him and he broke free from her immediately.

"I told you, no!  And I don't want to use force on you."

"But you already did.  You already raped me.  You and those two witches.
 You've already fucked me and now it's my turn to give a little back."

"I'm sorry Alex, I really am..."

"Don't be.  I want you to do this, now.  Fuck me."

"You're in shock."

"Fuck!  I know what I'm doing.  Stop whining about me being in fucking
shock!"

"Alex..."

"Just do it.  Just fuck me."  Her crotch ground into him.  "Don't you
want to get naked," she mumbled while stroking along him extra slowly. 
"Don't you want to fuck me?"

"Shit!"

"I know you want this, I know you're hard.  I can feel it."

It was true.  Philip couldn't deny the fact that he was having a hard-on
and he knew she could feel it.  He stared up at her.  She gazed back
down at him.  Ground into him.  When she saw the lust in his eyes she
smiled and got on her feet.  Still meeting his gaze she started to unzip
her trousers.

-----

Melissa was sitting on her bed and reading when Alexandra got back.  She
jumped as the redhead swirled into the room.  Alexandra threw her jacket
on the bed, grabbed a towel and left the room again.

''I hope Philip managed to talk sense to her,'' Melissa thought.  She
knew, if Philip hadn't been able to talk sense into Alexandra, she had
to deal with it herself.

When Alexandra got back she was holding her towel in her hands, still
drying them.  Melissa could feel her eyes from across the room.

"I talked to Philip," Alexandra said.

"Yeah?"

"He told me you two have been talking.  He told me you don't want me."

"What?  It's not... I mean it's not like that.  I just feel..."

"So, you do want me?"

"No.  I mean.  Not that you're not attractive, but... It would be
wrong."

"Why?"

"You are not yourself now.  I understand it feels like no one wants you,
but you have to trust me.  This will pass and you will feel differently
about it."

"Doctor van Alten told you to say that?"

"Uh..." Melissa twisted her hands.  "Yeah, but... I agree with it."

"Or maybe you're afraid of what might happen if you let me near?"

"What?  No!"

"I think that's it.  You're afraid giving in would make you an outcast."

"You think you've got me figured now?"

Alexandra reached her hand to Melissa's cheek.  Melissa flinched but as
the other woman's palm touched her skin she swallowed and closed her
eyes.

"I know I have," Alexandra said.

"Fuck!" Melissa said and got on her feet.  "You know nothing about me!"

"I know you want me every time you see me.  You peek when I undress."

"I do not... peek!"

Alexandra smiled.

"I don't!" Melissa repeated.  She grabbed her jacket and headed for the
door.  Alexandra grabbed her arm and hurled her back into the room and
onto one of the beds.

"What are you doing?" Melissa said.

"I'm not finished yet.  I know you want me.  And... you've already had
me."

"What do you mean?"

"Already forgot yesterday?"

"No.  God Alex I... I would never hurt you.  You must trust me."

"I trust you," Alexandra said and smiled as she locked the door.  "I
trust you completely.  Now, it's time for you to trust me."

"What?"

"Trust me."  Alexandra pulled her sweater off.  "And give me what you've
already got from me."  She unclasped her bra.  Melissa lowered her gaze.
 She knew Alexandra was right.  She'd had a nightmare already about what
had happened the other night.  In her nightmare she'd dreamed that
Alexandra licked her, and that it had made her come.  Even though the
demons was forcing them.  She had come.

"Alex," she said.  "God!  Honey, I'm so sorry, but you don't want to do
this.  You'll get out of this and then you'll realize..."  Alexandra
pulled her panties down.  "What are you doing?"

Alexandra climbed the bed and pushed Melissa down on her back.  "Just do
what I did," she said and straddled Melissa's chest.  She looked down at
her now trapped victim, smiled and scooted higher up in the bed.

Melissa saw a shimmer in Alexandra's eyes.  Something was wrong. 
''She's been kidnapped, maybe worse,'' she told herself.

"Lick me," Alexandra said and pushed her crotch down on Melissa's mouth.

Melissa closed her eyes.  The heady scent of her roommate filled her
nostrils.  Her damp pussy lips meshed into her mouth.  The image of what
she had done to Alexandra came back to her.  She had already raped her
roommate.  Was she being raped back?

She reached up to Alexandra's hips, hesitated and took her swollen pussy
lips in her mouth.  When Alexandra started to moan with pleasure Melissa
wanted to give her more.

"Harder!  Faster!" Alexandra said and grabbed Melissa's hair.

Melissa did what she could to comply with Alexandra's demands.  She
didn't stop or protest  even when the hold on her hair became painful. 
The harder Alexandra pulled, the more Melissa wanted to give the other
woman pleasure, and somewhere, under all the arousal, Melissa hoped that
she was healing Alexandra, but she knew that was not the whole truth. 
She was getting off on giving the other woman pleasure, and imagining
what she would do in return had her breathing quicken and her body
tingle.

Alexandra pulled Melissa's head harder to her crotch while grinding her
pussy all over her face.  "Yes," she groaned.  "Yes!  Oh yes!  Oh!  
Yes!  Yes!  Yes!"

Her legs shivered.  Melissa licked faster, almost devouring the other
woman.  Alexandra cried and arched her back.  She was a paralyzed bow of
shivering muscles.  The moment grew until she fell backwards with a long
cry and ended up on top of Melissa in a trembling, panting pile. 
Melissa raised her head and kept licking until Alexandra covered her
crotch.

"No more," she said.  "God!  I can't take more.  Not now."

Melissa stared into the ceiling, then she looked down, into the gaping
pussy right in front of her, "My God."

Alexandra laughed, making them both shake.  She struggled back up until
she was once more kneeling, this time over Melissa chest.

Their eyes met.  

"Did you like when I was doing that to you?" Alexandra said.

"I was forced... we were forced."

"And now?  Did I force you?"

Melissa was silent.  "At first, you did.  But then..."

"You want me to return the favor?"

"I..."

Alexandra scooted down in the bed.  "You want me to do you like this?"

"I... No!  If this is what you needed..."

"And your needs?"  Alexandra unbuttoned Melissa's fly.

"No!"  Melissa grabbed Alexandra's hands, pulling them aside.

"No?"

"Please," Melissa said.

Alexandra pushed her face between the waist of Melissa's jeans and her
sweater.  Stroking her lips over the small strip of naked skin she found
there.  Licking.  Pushing the sweater higher.  When she nibbled the
undersides of Melissa's breasts, through her lacy bra, Melissa let go of
her hands and reached to Alexandra's head.  Melissa pulled the other
woman even harder to her.

Alexandra reached under Melissa's back.  Melissa hesitated for a second
before she raised her back, allowing Alexandra access.  Seconds later
the strap around her waist slacked and Melissa felt naked.  She could
feel Alexandra's palms sliding over her skin, pushing her sweater and
bra up under her chin.  She moaned when Alexandra touched her breasts,
then Alexandra's damp lips pressed against her skin.

"Alex," she said.  "Please..."

Alexandra licked Melissa, making her twitch and moan.  She slid her free
hand down to Melissa's waist again.  This time Melissa didn't try to
stop her and when she got the fly open she slid her hand into her
panties.  Melissa was soaking wet.

"I knew you wanted this," Alexandra whispered and started to scoot down
in the bed.

Melissa tried to get her thoughts in order.  ''What am I doing?''  She
knew what she should call it.  She had already done it to Alexandra, now
it was happening again.  But Alexandra wasn't being forced.  She was
forcing Melissa.  Or was she?

Alexandra was pulling Melissa's trousers down.  She knew she should
resist, but she couldn't.  Instead she raised her butt.  Alexandra
pulled off her panties and she felt the cold air on her naked skin. 
Felt exposed.

"Alex," she said.  "I'm..."

The other woman licked along Melissa's thighs.  Melissa twitched and
tried to push her legs together, but Alexandra pried them apart with
surprising strength and pushed her head even further down between them.

"Oh, God!  Alex!"

Alexandra reached her crotch and Melissa's resistance subsided.  She
wanted this.  Wanted Alexandra.  She knew it was wrong, that she was
giving in to someone that was ill, but she couldn't help herself.

Alexandra pushed a couple of fingers into Melissa as she kept licking
and licking and making Melissa squirm.

"Oh Jesus," she whined.  "Oh!"

The world seemed to fall away and all she could hear was her own
breathing.  All she could feel was Alexandra's tongue.  Lick for lick. 
Oceans of fire cascaded through her and with a squeal, muffled in her
pillow, the fire turned her into floating, blazing ecstasy.

When she came back to her senses she realized Alexandra was laughing. 
She looked down.  The other woman was kneeling beside her, her face was
damp with Melissa's juices, and Melissa wanted to reach up to her and
kiss her but the reality of what had just happened held her back.

''I gave in,'' she thought.  ''I let her have her will even though I
know she isn't okay.''  She hid her face in her palms.  "Alex," she
said.  "Oh, God, Alex..."

Alexandra got up from the bed and when Melissa glanced at her she was
getting dressed.

"We're even now," Alexandra said and clasped her bra.

''Have we raped each other now?'' Melissa thought.  When they've done
it, it had felt like they were making love.  "Even?"

"Yeah, well," Alexandra let her eyes linger on Melissa's body.  "You owe
me one..."

There was nothing Melissa could say to that.  True, she had forced her
crotch into Alexandra's face, and Alexandra had done the same to her. 
There was no bad feelings left to be had... But still, she had been
forced to do that to Alexandra.  Could she have resisted more?  ''I
licked her... Eagerly!  What if she's still in shock?  What if I've just
abused her?  She tried to call for help and I took advantage of her?'' 
Melissa found that thought too disturbing.  She had to tell herself once
again that it was Alexandra that made the advance.

"See you later," Alexandra said.  She was dressed now.  Melissa managed
to pull her trousers up before Alexandra opened the door and left the
room.

''There is something wrong with her.  Alexandra is in desperate need of
help.  I have to talk to Konrad.  What if this have happened to someone
else?''  For a second she had a scary image of Alexandra being in bed
with half the people on campus.  ''No!  People around here are honest,
it's only someone like me that manages to misinterpret her so badly --
unless you wanted to misinterpret?''

Melissa shook her head.  ''No more!''  She looked at the clock.  It was
too late to visit Konrad today.  ''I'll talk to him tomorrow.''