I chose to bury it, put it out of my mind, and never say a word.“It was the everyday, constant darkness of being fence in with no place to go that w...s the most difficult. It was the feeling of living a meaningless life, and knowing your body, mind, and soul were being used and debased by someone who I thought I could trust. It was a feeling of being defenseless, helpless, hopeless.“I pretended like we were an ordinary father-daughter family living in an ordinary quiet neighborhood, keeping busy. How do I know all this? The quiet as a mouse youngest daughter hears a lot!Gene started being even nicer to me and when he started talking to me like I was an adult I found myself liking the time I spent with my step-dad a lot. All of a sudden, I was opening up to him and telling him all my deep, dark secrets; like how I gave away my virginity on my fourteenth birthday to a nerdy guy friend just because I was bored. I liked sex the first time, although I didn’t pass out like Toni did. I. ” he began.“High Barnet, mate. We don’t go no further.”“No. No, of course.” He looked around. The carriage was empty. He got up slowly and a little stiffly, still very conscious of pummelling that his buttocks had received from Allison.“Are you all right, mate?”Lionel nodded. “Yes. Yes, of course.” He looked around as he went to leave the train. “I missed my stop.”“Next one back is on the other platform,” the guard said, shaking his head. It happened all the time. Drunk, doped up or simply too. We learned more about our bodies and our magic every single day, happy to be in servitude to Mistress Sevinma. Now, however, it’s soon my time to be able to support myself completely. I’m much stronger than I was four years ago, needing only a bit more energy to be able to be on my own. Sitting on a ledge, I looked over the Succubus plane thinking about it. Soon, I’d be on earth, not looking across a plane of hell. The sights of earth couldn’t match the Succubus plane, I muse. The entire place.