/tags/age/Recent content in Age on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usWed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2008/04/02/a-whole-new-you/Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2008/04/02/a-whole-new-you/<p>As the tentacles encircling my wrists and holding me aloft slacked, I collapsed into Ryan’s arms.  The spell’s effect still had me powerless and kept causing my body to jerk involuntarily.</p> <p>Ryan helped me across the room and let me fall a top his bed.  Angela was still laying there, trapped in a spells hold as well.  Unlike me, Ryan had left her laying there naked, the shock on her face still trapped there from when Ryan first stormed into the room and discovered us.  I wonder…was she in some sort of suspended hibernation…or was she conscious of what was going on around her?</p>