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Exhausted.
Try as he might, Martin could think of no other word in his extensive vocabulary that would describe how he felt at the moment.
And at this moment, he was sitting in his office chair, looking out the window at the houses around him. The tall trees and roads were almost as old as the United States, and the people were milling about. Some of them gathered at the property line, watching the work going into the old house he was sitting in right now.
As it turned out, the house's renovation had recently become a spectator event. Throughout the location's history, many others have tried to restore the house but have always met with failure or disaster. There had been deaths, insanity, and even a conspiracy involving a prominent family in New York with holdings in Atlantic City and a chain of hotels. The Patriarch of who had recently become a politician. His grandfather appeared to have a role in the house's history, and even rumors that the family tried to destroy the house.
In fact, so many people were coming to him with their own family stories about the house that he hired an archivist to invite them in and document the story and names when they were comfortable giving them. Some people wanted money for their story, and in those cases, Martin told them that they would be happy to pay when the details were verified. Many times, those were the ones who left in a huff.
He stood and stretched, his muscles complaining about the process as he did so. It had been four days since his night with Stephanie, and she had worn him out. The next day, he woke up in the room and immediately went to bed in his own bed, sleeping close to fifteen hours.
He heard a small bell ring behind him and turned to see Amanda sitting in the office chair he had just vacated.
"Hello." She said as she smiled.
Martin immediately felt better about the day and turned to her, then walked to one of the guest chairs and sat. "To what do I owe this pleasure."
Still smiling, she turned the chair to face him and pulled it closer, saying, "I just wanted to see how you were."
He nodded slowly, "Tired. Stephanie really took it out of me the other day. I have never been worked over that hard."
Her gaze fell to the desk, and she said, "I guess that is a little my fault, Martin." She shrugged, "None of us are aware of our effect on the living until we interact with them. Madam said that she thinks Stephanie might be something of a Succubus." Then she looked at him and quickly added, "But she may not have known, and I do not think she was trying to hurt you."
She paused momentarily and then added, "Stephanie did say that she really enjoyed your time together."
He nodded, "That would certainly explain things." He looked at his hand, still shaking, "I am getting better, but I was completely drained when she was through with me." He thought about it a moment, then laughed, "And I have never had so many orgasms in one night."
He saw her blush a little and look away.
"Amanda?" He asked.
She looked at him, a tinge of pink still on her cheeks. "Yes, Martin?"
He nodded at her, "You are ok with my talking about this, right?"
She averted her eyes again, "Of course. But I am still new to so much of this. I had only been here a short while before the..." Her voice faltered a little, "The accident."
He looked down and said, "I'm sorry, Amanda."
"No, no... it's OK." She stood, wiping tears away from her eyes. "That is not what I am here for. I wanted to talk to you about Dominica."
He looked up at her, "Who?"
"Room three, Dominica." She adjusted herself a little and wiped her eyes again, "She will be your next visit."
"Dominica? Sounds exotic."
She smiled, "Yes and no... She is soft-spoken and speaks very little English. In fact, Madam has asked me to sit in for part of your visit to translate for you before you get started."
Martin nodded, "OK. You speak her language?"
"She speaks Spanish, or a sort of Spanish. She is from somewhere in South America, but I know enough to act as a translator." She thought about it longer, then added, "I think Brazil."
Martin winked at her, "You are a lady of many talents. But if she is from Brazil, she probably speaks Portuguese."
She thought about it a moment and then asked, "But I have spoken with her before, and there are some words I do not understand, but we can communicate."
Martin nodded, "It's still a Latanic language, so I have no doubt."
Amanda stood, walked past him to the window, and looked out for a few minutes, "Among other things in my life, I lived with my family when they were doing missionary work for the church." She made a kind of shrug with her hands and turned to Martin, "So I had to learn Spanish, or I would not be able to get along with the people we met."
Martin sensed that there was more to the story but decided not to press too hard. "OK. You still have a talent I do not possess, so I am impressed."
He looked at her for a while longer, "May I ask a question that might be personal?"
She looked at him, walked around, and returned to his chair. "You may."
He looked around, "Where do you go when you are not... well... HERE?"
She looked surprised and thought about it for a moment. "It's hard to explain. I am with the others, the other girls, and the Madam." She stopped for a moment like she was trying to put it together, "But I cannot say that we are in our bodies." She shook her head, "That is all I can say."
Martin looked at her for a moment and did not feel like she was hiding anything, and let out a deep breath. "It's just something I wonder about. Afterlife and all that."
Amanda looked at her hands for a moment, then at Martin. "I cannot think that this," She gestured around the room, "would be heaven. Maybe this is like our Limbo until we are permitted to cross over?"
He nodded for a moment, then looked at her again. He took in how delicate and pretty she was and how innocent she appeared, the fall of her hair across her face and the delicate lines of her lips and eyes.