"A quiet minute passed, and then Megan heard Adao begin to pray."Adao?" The Heavens Megan! I had hoped the world would end in light, not in darkness!"...Oh, I don't think this the end of the world, not yet anyway! I can still smell the farm! And listen to all the frightened animals! I don't think God has ended the world Adao. Listen to the poor frightened animals! Torturing His creatures like this just isn't God's style." Megan shivered in the breeze. The wind was becoming quite brisk now.Adao. As I began delving into what some of her issues were, trying to get a feel for why it was that she thought I could help, I noticed as I sat slightly off to one side and behind her head that she would occasionally reach up and seemingly finger with the buttons on her blouse, one or twice even brushing her fingers across her nipples as we continued our discussion.The thing that was odd was that there was nothing sexual in our discussion whatsoever. Everything we discussed or went over seemed to. Greta, my maid, savaged my nipple hard. The sharp pain reached into my awareness of my stone flesh to alert me of danger.“What?” I asked.“Your father is at your door,” Greta said, tugging up my nightgown to properly cover me. “He’s demanding to see you. I told him you were sleeping.”A loud knock came from the entrance to my apartments, muffled by my closed bedroom door. “Ava, my sweetling, open up. I need to see you.”I shivered. He’d been gone for a week. A week free of my father’s lusting. Then I wake her up, counting backwards “5-4-3-2-1,” I put my hand on her foreehead, “Open your eyes, You are fully awake and alert. Take a deep breath.”Maisie takes a deep breath. “Whoa. That was a little strange. What did you do?”“I told you to study and to remember it for your test tomorrow.” I shrugged. “It will be totally E-Z. Capisce?”“Huh?”I keep forgetting she has a smaller vocabulary than me. “It means, ‘understand’. Now go, learn, pass your test tomorrow. You can thank me later.”“Holy.