"Why the last?" she asked again."I'm to have my clitoris burned off."The look of horror in Aisha's face shocked Lila."Aisha, you look like you have se...n a ghost," Lila tried to comfort the girl.Aisha opened a door and through her tears said, "Manu is down there."Lila kissed Aisha, "Thank you for everything."Lila descended the stairs; she expected the basement to be stuffy, hot with the flames of braziers, to hear the wailing of the condemned, the screams of the tortured. Instead she entered a. Moving. I stood up with a start when I felt an odd mass writhing against my butt. I still felt it under my feet of course, and I quickly realised it wasn't one solid mass, it was many. Long, thin, slippery shapes slithered under my feet. I tried to calm myself, thinking I'd just fallen into a real life pit full of god damn snakes, and that not moving was really my only option. But then I felt the snakes start worming their was up my legs. I have to admit I panicked then, and frantically tried. ”“Don’t think so,” Murielle replied. “I really liked being the one that eats.”“And you ate a lot,” Miranda teased.“So ... how does this affect our little trip?” Murielle wanted to know. “You know, around the world in eighty years or whatever?”“I guess we walk,” Miranda sighed. “But I really enjoyed riding on your back.”“I bet,” Murielle smirked. “Knowing you, I’m sure you found some icky way to get off when you were riding me.”“Are you accusing me of having sex with your backside?” Miranda. The memory of her holding him tight as he'd sobbed wasn't one he'd soon forget. He'd been embarrassed after, but she had felt so safe that he'd clung to her desperately. He didn't know how he was supposed to feel about that. Nothing. She's a married woman. You feel nothing about that.He heard a car door behind him, bringing him back to the present as he heard footsteps approaching."You okay... ?" she asked him.She was bundled up against the cold, her hands shoved in her coat pockets as he.