The night before, Ashley and Lenore had tried to leave me too exhausted to move. It had not quite worked, but I was satiated at the moment and looking...more to hold my ladies."Did you hear the news while we were at the park?" Lenore asked."Which one? The one that the Confederacy admitted that they lost several scouts to a surprise appearance of a Sa'arm cruiser at the Lalande system? No I missed that one," I said."I don't know why that's a problem," Ashley said."The system is less than ten light. She works as a waitress at a diner on Route 7 and pulls an occasional train to make ends meet.”“What about Duke?”“He is doing 5 to 10 at an upstate institute for boosting a load of condoms. He never recovered from blowing out his knee on the first play of his professional career.”“Bummer. Can you send me back there and take a shot at getting in her pants before Duke?”Instead of a response, I found myself in English Lit, sitting right behind Susie Brown, as I had done so many years before. This. That's what was hounding Melanie. Melanie felt her mother's sin. She was unconsciously being led down the same path.But her mother had acted consciously and willingly. Hers was not the actions of an unknowing child.She had actively sought the experience. The fantasy had preyed on her mind and Nora was not the kind of woman who refused to face herself.Franklin had been the object of her lust for twenty years. He dearly loved and cherished all their passionate moments. Nora was an excellent. My eyes fall to the clothes out drying in the sun. The cloak I will need tonight maybe, so it stays. The chemise is still wet, but the green dress, can be put to rest. Folded and pressed it goes into a plastic bag and sealed, then into the box. Now I can relax, and wash the dirt away. The river has over time carved out a pool up from the falls. The soft soil pulled out revealing the hard black stones of a past volcanic flow. So this little pool I find, and hear I sit. Sliding into the water,.