Jacob woke up stiffly and groggily on the bed, his mind feeling the weight of a dull haze from the weirdest nights sleep he had ever had. He woke up alone on the bed, realising his was nearly entirely coated in a thin sheen of slime, which he presumed was from Misty's stomach. The mention of her name in his internal monologue made him realise he was alone in the room. It was also the same moment he could smell a cooked breakfast being prepared downstairs.
 Did he go downstairs to the being

Jacob double checked the written directions on the seat next to him as he drove down the dirt track, unsure how much he could trust either that or his satnav, if only because of the remoteness of his intended destination. Perhaps it had been a bad idea to accept the inheritance of the farm from his very recently late brother rather than just selling it on, but part of him had decided to go for it. While it had been years since he had ever done any farmwork with his siblings back on their parents

The poor student nearly lost her footing on the icy pavement as she was buffeted by a fresh onslaught of snow and freezing cold air. Her normally thick winter coat seemed to do nothing to keep the bone chilling wind from cutting straight through her. Blinking the snow from her eyes, she could already see the main street was already deserted, the local residents of the university town obviously had taken the storm warnings more seriously than she had.
 Stumbling around, she had to fight a s

He walked down the quieter streets, looking for the alleyway he had been told to look. For his 'good time'. He had recently come of age, but his nervousness and awkwardness had meant he had always struggled to get close to anyone to become intimate with anyone. It had seemed like a reasonable idea to instead find a professional for his first time, not romantic by most peoples' reckoning, but that was not what he was looking for.
 Absent mindedly stroking the pocket with his wallet and ID, h

The bright eyed, young man, well dressed and armed with pamplets and a holy book stood back from the door that he had just confidently knocked on. It was his first day going door to door and he was very confident he would at least be let in by a handful of people today. The early morning sun was casting a greater confidence over himself than perhaps the groggy faces he had so far encountered would justify, but he had faith.
 At this particular house, he could hear the creaking of floor boar

It was relatively early in the morning at the small hotel that Jacen was staying in before planning on trekking through the Amazon in a few days when he got up out of bed. The heat was welcome, but what he certainly had yet to get used to was the humidity, almost perpetually coating him in sweat. The only thing he could do right now was to take a shower to at least give him a fresh start before getting dressed for the day.
 Even at the lowest temperature in the shower booth within the bathr