The Telematrix, Part 14
She spent the night with the tall stranger, against her better judgment. Her liaison with Leve broke all of her rules against personal attachment. Despite a lifetime of unusual mental discipline, a few moments of overwhelming desire overcame her senses.
Telematrice awoke in the middle of the night to screams, but it was not the sound of terror that disturbed her most.
The space beside her on the bed was conspicuously vacant.