Gabriel Brim Gabriel hears voices, it has been that way since his Aunt Clarissa was found dead at her villa in Sicily. Motivated by revenge against her sister, the hot blooded Sicilian aristocrat seduced Gabriel on the night of his 18th birthday. Gabriel's parents had not taken much of an interest in him, they were too busy climbing the ladder of success. His father, William Brim, was an engineer in the days when oil, gas, and chemicals could make a man quite wealthy. William's virgin bride, the beautiful D'Anna Cosenza, was the flower of her father's eye and could do no wrong, much to the consternation of her sibling, the elder daughter, Clarissa. Within the small Sicilian village of San Benedetto, it was well known that Guido Cosenza was a high ranking Capo in La Famiglia, with a permissive love for his youngest daughter, and a darker fondness for his elder daughter. When he attempted to barter Clarissa to another Sicilian Capo, she ran away and was unheard of for many years. Tensions increased when Guido died and left all his substantial wealth to D'Anna, leaving only his villa to Clarissa, a place she held vile and vowed never to accept. When D'Anna, already enjoying the wealth of her husband's lucrative career refused her sister's request to share in the inheritance, it burned in Clarissa's heart, long frozen by her father's attentions, within her now was fire and ice. So, it was, on the night of Gabriel's coming of age, with his parents away on one of their frequent jaunts, that Clarissa stole into Gabriel's bed with the intention of stealing her nephew from D'Anna and continuing a family tradition into the next generation. In her years away, Clarissa had become a strong and powerful Domme in rebellion against her dead Father. Her vengeful intention was to subjugate Gabriel . In Gabriel's dark Sicilian eyes, however, she saw herself and not long after training him to submit and obey, she relented and elevated him to join with her as lovers; trying her best to love him unconditionally in hopes of learning to love herself. It soon became clear to both of them, as Clarissa taught Gabriel the erotic arts of Tantra which she had mastered during the years of estrangement from family and father, that Gabriel had a special calling as an intuituve healer. She took him to ashrams in India, monasteries in Nepal, to shamans living in the jungles of South America so he could study with Masters of the erotic and healing arts, subtle energy medicine pathways of the body, and the spirituality of Buddhist meditation. Along the way, Clarissa understood that her rebellion had merely masked the true nature of her own submissive soul, and culminated Gabriel's training to become the Master she needed to find freedom of her body, mind, and spirit. During their last stay in a monastery high in the Himalayas, Clarissa departed on her own to return to the village of her birth to dispense with the hated villa, planning to rejoin Gabriel, now her beloved, sensual Master; when that task was done. She was found there at the villa, dead, bound to a bed, her mouth cruelly gagged, a silken scarf strangled about her throat. The Sicilian authorities tagged it a crime of passion and whoever was in that room with her that night, was never found. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, Gabriel comes now to the City, bringing his quite ordinary certification as a massage therapist, and his extraordinary gifts for healing. Most of the time, he works compassionately employing the warmth he's learned to generate in his healing hands to relieve the common ailments and release the chronic physical tensions of those he works on. But at times, there, in his massage studio, his Aunt will sometimes arise as a voice in his mind to aid his intuitive powers for finding the hidden repressed emotions held within the bodies of some of the more difficult, disturbed, or wounded clients. In recent days, however, Clarissa speaks to him as he encounters various people in his everyday personal life. Her voice is sometimes playful and encouraging, but now, more so at night when she visits him in dreams, she expresses a wrath that has come to disturb him, for he does not know why his Aunt Clarissa is haunting him. Moving through him are the facets of all his combined training and practice; his compassionate wish is to heal those who come to him, he longs to teach and pass on his knowledge, he seeks those special ones that can join with him in rites that maintain his healing powers, and he longs to learn the secret of his Aunt Clarissa's woeful cries. TRIPLES with EMMA