So sorry to sneak up on you. I don’t know what I was thinking. Curiosity got the better of me”. “Do not be sorry traveller. You are meant to be ...ere. Do know what day it is?”He saw the symbols of pigment drawn across her body“Err, Thursday?”“Yes, but specifically it is the midsummer full moon. The night of passion and fertility”“Err, oh. OK”John was bemused but strangely not put off. Kate released her hands from her breasts and let them fall down again, her erect nipples jutting from the round. Her light, her beauty filled my vision completely and like the sun rising to greet the plants and flowers her beauty was pure life to me. Rays of glorious energy bringing me back from a cold empty night. And like the rising sun she hailed the beginning. Not the beginning of a new day but the beginning of something special in my life.She was younger than me. Much younger. Well not exactly much younger but she was at the stage in her life when that sort of difference did make a difference. She. Well, you can imagine her state.You see, Janet never knew about my condition. Mother was the only one who ever changed me. My grandmothers on both sides were dead before I was born. Janet was never allowed to change me or baby-sit with me. In fact, my parents never went out so they wouldn't have to hire any baby sitter. Dad was a blue collar worker and couldn't afford to go out anyway.Janet saw nothing unusual in that arrangement and never questioned it. Thus, she never knew until the moment. His desire was to be pardoned, to walk away from the prison, and find a little farmhouse where he could retire - someplace where he or his brother's criminal exploits weren't known. A place where he could grow his vegetables and sit around the local diner drinking coffee with his neighbors. A place where he was free to enjoy the last few years of his life, safe from the gangster revenge that took so many of his predecessors.Chapter 2 - The robberyThe naked woman sat up on the bed in the dark.