I turn back to where Olgawas originally sitting. There are two low makeshift beds on which thereare two terribly burned bodies, charred flesh peeling ...ff their limbs.One is much smaller than the other. Suddenly, the larger one moans inpain."She is alive?!" I cry."Yes. Olga has performed miracles today. It is now your turn. They aremother and daughter. There is a second child, a baby. The mother couldonly protect one of her children when their room became flooded withflour dust which burst into. ‘Its summer, the water’s warm.’As I got to her she took my hand and pulled me upright and into her arms.‘Like a dream isn’t it,’ she said.The water bounced off me, spraying in sheets, with one stream making a kind of transparent umbrella reaching across from my head to her forehead. She moved forward, ducking under this liquid canopy and kissed me. One thing for sure, she had done that before. I’m not inexperienced; and maybe I was surprised, possibly even shocked, so I may have been a little. ‘Also,’ I continued, ‘Captain is more of a political post than a, shall we say, ‘working class’ officer level. Captains and above have a different Union than Lieutenants and below. But there’s two other perks that are the best part of this: ‘First: you’re now exempt from the physical fitness requirements that police officers of ranks Lieutenant and below have to meet. I know you’re in great shape, but if anyone starts giving me shit about your lung wound, I’ll now have something to shove in. Smiling, Brook consented to Maria’s request, and in a few hours, both she and Will were home-alone, Maria’s money in hand.“Hey, Brook?” Will said, turning around the corner of the TV-room to see Brook sprawled out on the couch, watching TV and texting someone on her phone.“Yes?”“My mom’s gone can we uh...do it?”“Will, I’m tired”“But it’s two-thirty in the afternoon! Come one, we don’t even have to go all the way, how about just a blow-job, or-”“Will you know I don’t like to suck your dick, and.