On Sunday morning, naked Candice was in her and Camilla's bathroom looking at her hair and nails. Camilla, also naked, came up behind Candice and put her hands on Candice's tits. She gave them a gentle squeeze, then rubbed her fingers around the outer areolae.
"Oh, that feels good, Camil," Candice moaned. "But to make your dad like me, if you want my hair dyed black, or for me to wear a black wig, neither may be necessary. Do you see the black hairs I have mixed in with my red?"
Camilla took a good look at Candice's hair. "Yeah, you
do
have a few black hairs there," she said. "A few of your pubic hairs are black, too." Camilla ran her fingers through Candice's now ginger and black pubes. "My hair seems a darker blonde, too. I bet I've got some new black mixed in there."
"D'you think it's the Nigrovum?" Candice asked in sighs.
"More than likely. Ravinder tells me in his e-mails that his finger- and toenails are getting blacker and blacker, just like ours." Looking at her fingernails and showing them to Candice, Camilla said, "See?" The black lines were now thicker, crooked stripes, the sides of which seemed to dissolve into the transparent look of the remaining normal areas in between.
"Eww, yeah, mine are the same. This is scaring me a bit."
"Well, nail polish will cover it," Camilla said, reaching for hers. "If this black is the worst of Nigrovum's side effects, I wouldn't worry about it. Remember: we heal quickly, and we have
psychic powers
."
"Yeah, but what if it makes us crazy, like those Satanists?" Candice asked.
"I figure if we avoid using it to hurt people, we should be OK. We'll use Nigrovum only for good. Speaking of good, I hope Daddy had a good dream last night. I made him dream of you with black hair, and I got him excited so he'd like you."
"I can't help thinking that's creepy, Camil."
"It's not like I
physically
touched him, Candice; I did it psychically." Camilla looked intensely in Candice's eyes, and said, "You must seduce him, Candice; make him forget about Carrie."
"OK, OK; don't get psychic on me. I'll do it. I'd do anything for you, you know that, baby."
"Good. Now let's get dressed and find out about Daddy's dream."
***************
"Good morning, Daddy," Camilla said as she and Candice went into the kitchen to see Agape, who was cooking breakfast for them. She kissed her father on the cheek, then sat at the kitchen table beside Candice. "Did you have pleasant dreams?"
"No, not at all," he said with a shudder, giving the girls plates with scrambled eggs and toast.
"Oh?" Camilla asked with worry in her eyes. "What did you dream about?"
"I feel a little uncomfortable talking about it," he said as he brought his own plate of breakfast to the table and sat down.
"Oh, it was just a dream," Camilla said. "How bad could it be?"
"Well," he said haltingly. "First there were Carrie and I, then Carrie became Candice, who...uh; then Candice suddenly became
you
, who...uh, I'd rather not say."
"That's OK, Daddy," Camilla said, blushing and knowing already what he'd really dreamt.
"It was just a dream, Mr. Mennon," Candice said, brushing her leg against his and looking lewdly and intensely in his eyes. "Don't worry about it."
Agape froze, with a wide-eyed look of shock. Candice sensed strong resistance in him.
Worried about where the conversation might be heading, Camilla changed the subject. "What's on the agenda for today, Daddy?"
"Church," he said, staring down Candice. "After a dream like the one I had, only Mass will make me feel better. Girls, please wear
nice
dresses there, OK?"
"Anything you say, Daddy. We'll change as soon as we finish breakfast, which is delicious, by the way. Thanks."
***************
Back in their bedroom, the girls undressed and found some appropriate dresses to wear to church.
"Oh, God: Daddy saw me blowing him in his dream," Camilla said as she pulled off her panties.
"Eww!" Candice said.
"I meant for him to see only
you
, Candice. I must've gotten clumsy when I manipulated his dream. I'll have to be more careful and focused next time."
"His resistance to Nigrovum is strong," Candice said. "We'll need more than that for me to seduce him, that sweet old saint. I recommend drugs." She, in her underwear, put on a conservative-looking blue and white dress.
"Let's be careful with that, OK?" Camilla said as she, naked, put on her green, flower-patterned dress. "I need to know if that sweet old saint is cool about dope first. If he is, we'll ease him into party mode slowly. He already drinks, so that means we're already half way there. Maybe I can drop a pill in his bourbon and mix it in so he doesn't know. By the way, how are you, as new to Toronto as I am, going to find a dope connection ASAP?"
"As soon as I find an apartment, I'll hunt for a stripping job. Shouldn't take too long; then I'm sure a dope connection will be found in the new strip joint where I work--surely at least a few, if not all, of the strippers will have a seller for a boyfriend or a customer. Since I just made your dad uncomfortable, he'll want me gone; so I'll get my shit together really quickly. Just promise me, Camil, that when I move out, that we'll still see each other? I mean, you living with your dad and all,..."
"Of course we'll still fuck," Camilla said, hugging Candice and kissing her on the lips. "I need you to come here for partying and seducing Daddy. While he's wasted and unconscious, we'll make love, too." And I need to look at
other
men, Camilla thought; I'm beginning to think weird thoughts about Daddy--I'd better watch myself.
***************
Agape and the girls sat up at the front pew in church. The first reading was from Genesis 6:1-8, the beginning of the story of the Great Flood. The responsorial Psalm was 115:1-8, about the folly of idolatry. The second reading was from 1 Corinthians 10:14--22, again about the evil of idolatry. The Gospel reading was from John 6:35-58, in which Jesus says, "I am the bread of life."
After the Gospel reading, Father Don Josiah began his homily. "The sons of God went in unto the the daughters of men," he said. "Who were the 'sons of God'? Were they the divine council of the major gods from Levantine Bronze and Iron Age texts, from ancient pagan times? Were they pagan gods? Were they fallen angels, as some have supposed? In other words, were they devils? Our holy Church teaches that they were men, the descendants of righteous Seth; they were good, but then they rebelled against God and married the 'daughters of men', or of Cain, the first murderer. From their unholy union they had children, the Nephilim, giants--heroes, perhaps, to the pagans, but giants only in sin to Christians. From this sinfulness grew even more gigantic sin, leading to wickedness everywhere in the world; thus God repented of creating man, and caused the Flood to drown the wicked and wipe all the sin away."
Agape raptly paid attention; Candice sat bored; Camilla looked in the priest's eyes, thinking the tall, forty-something man was cute.
"However we choose to think about the 'sons of God'," Father Josiah continued, "as gods, as fallen angels turned into devils, or as men fallen in sin, we can see in this story an allegory about the evils of idolatry. As Christians, we are to be married to God: He is the groom; we are the bride. We mustn't marry the 'son
s
of God', as the wicked, idolatrous daughters of Cain did. We must marry the only-begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ."
Camilla looked intensely in the eyes of the priest, visualizing a rose passing in the air towards him. Seeing the pretty girl's aggressive gaze, he felt a strange but titillating sensation all around his penis: it felt as though a hand was stroking it; he was beginning to develop an erection. He paused nervously, then continued.
"The son
s
of God...must not be seen...as divine," he continued with his voice occasionally cracking into an edgy falsetto. "If we think of...them as divine, we make them...into idols...
devils