Once at his cell, the guard flicked on the bright lights, and to his utter dread, Charlie found a six-foot- tall, muscular black man who was jarred aw...ke by his arrival. Charlie figured at this point that he would be eaten alive, beat up, or even raped if they stuck him in with this foreboding prisoner. He could do nothing more than climb into the top bunk over the sweating body of his new best friend and terrify himself into getting some sleep.“Can you at least turn off the lights?” said his. “No, but if you have a card, then we can comp your room for you,” the man answered examining Oscar for a second. He’d seen plenty of people stoned out of their mind drop a bundle at the table. If he kept Oscar at the table, he knew that they would win every dollar they had just paid out back and perhaps a few dollars more.Not understanding what the man was talking about, Oscar said, “I’d just like to play a couple of times.”“We reward high rollers with free rooms, meals, and tickets to events.. "What do you mean by that?" heasked.Consuela turned her head away from Thomas and started sobbing. "Get offme please..." she whimpered.Thomas rolled his eyes. "I would if you would unlock your legs fromaround my waist," he said lowering his mouth to her nipple. "Maybe youwant some more?" STOP!" Consuela cried, her face twisted between embarrassment, fear, andshame."Tell him," Vanessa said stroking Consuela's cheek."Tell me what?" Thomas said growing irritated.Consuela shook her head, tears. Some very large plants also occupied the enclosure. They were much larger versions of the shrubs, which had fascinated her earlier. "Those must be great grow-lights they have up there," she mused, trying to bolster her courage.The velvet-leafed plants had become true giants. The stubby trunks had attained a thickness of four to five feet and a height of ten feet. Large drops of sappy secretion nested on their downy skins. The creepers radiating from the trunks' squat bases were as thick as.