Then he looked around and saw the signs of a celebration and asked what was going on."Haven't I got enough cause to celebrate? And with several of our...friends coming, we thought to have a big feast." Was all that Karen would say and went back to what she was doing Randy knew there was more but he also knew that he would get nothing out of Karen, Dracon, or any of the other family members. So he turned to his two friends to have them tell what was going on but they would only tell him part of. I am not a painslut. But XeneSusan9984 is and the pain drove her higher and higher and higher and higher until she was nearly out of her mind.Afterwards, she told me it was as if she had somehow united with all of the XeneSusans who had come before her. She said that for an instant the memories in her mind were somehow not just memories, but it was as if she were reliving all those lives again. “No, more than that,” she said excitedly, “it was as if I were really there.”She thought I was going. "You know that virtually every animal in the wild, and even our own pets, often show what belongs to them by marking it."She listened, but didn't understand yet so she replied, "Yeah. A lot of animals do that I guess"I offered her another hint to help lead her to the answer on her own by asking, "But what do they do? How do they show what is theirs? How do they let other animals know what they own or where their territory is?"It took only a moment before I saw realization form. "They mark it",. Her appetite had vanished and her gut was a cold hard knot. Her firstthought was 'am I safe here?' She looked around and could see several ofher coworkers whose desks were close by. She had resented being so closeto areas where people would stop and talk, making it hard to concentrate.She was glad for it now.Should she tell someone? Fred was out for the week. There was Cathy inHR, but should she say something? She started to doubt herself. Was itreally as bad as I remembered it, or was.