Hide and Seek

EMT

"What do you want, Case?"

We were lying in bed at my apartment.

"What's worth having?"

Her face was only inches from mine. Her eyes let me down into the

depths of her. I slid there gratefully.

"Pleasure.

"Knowledge. Security. I want to own good things, I guess. Success,

eventually. And something astonishing, something that surprises me. Or

me, surprising myself."

I didn't question her. I just watched her eyes narrow. She sat up

suddenly, catlike, in the moonlight.

"Will is worth having. Power."

^Ah