“A little while ago I decided to sacrifice her,” she said, simply, accepting a light for her cigarette “and she found the Yellow Sign this after...oon, just before I called you. She will be collected at three o’clock from outside the cinema opposite here; the opportunity to have her tormented during her last hours was too perfect to pass up”. She let a curl of smoke drift from between her lips.“Fascinating!” exclaimed Dmitri, turning to the slave, who stood passively beside Magda’s chair looking. "Get that hand flat! Hold the thumb down!" Thung! "one" Thung! "Two" Thung! "three" Mia has beautiful style when she operates. She holds the tip of the strap above her shoulder with her left hand taking careful aim. Then she squeezes tension into the handle with her right, lets go of the tip and follows through with her whole arm like a champion golfer. It is thus, as the leather impacts the palms, that the deep "Thung" sound emits followed by my voice counting out loud the number of the. I had never really looked at it before but on this day, possibly my last day of freedom I took in the serenity of the open countryside. By the time I knocked on the door I was in a state of peace. Like I was totally detached from myself.As usual Mike was dressed only in his dressing gown, I followed him into the lounge and stood in front of his chair. Waiting for him to say something. “I see you have seen sense.”“Anything is better than prison. I wont fight you. But don’t expect me to enjoy it. They determined that he was inebriated and brought him in.”“Was he driving the car?”“Well, we assume so, but no one witnessed him driving and the vehicle was not running so we cannot get him on DUI. While he was under the influence he was not driving at the time; so he was brought in for public intoxication and public urination.”“Shit!”“Yup.”“So what happens how?”“Well, if you want to come down the bail is set automatically at $1000 and you would need to pay that or get a bail bondsman to pay.