Elaine was just a curious young girl and slipped her hand up under the salesgirls skirt to find out for herself. The salesgirl jumped but continued to...smile. Elaine smiled at me and nodded. I gave the salesgirl a five-dollar tip. As we exited the store I suggested Old Navy and miniskirts for everyone. That got a cheer from my girls. In Old Navy the girls all wanted skirts that were way too short, but who was I to care about that. They each tried on three skirts and modeled them for me before. Carter lightly slapped Melissa's leg and said, "Now Beth honey, I amthe doctor. Let me explain all that was performed." With a nod andsilence from Beth, she continued. "Linda, I am sure you are just nownoticing something touching your upper lip." Linda noddedapprehensively. "What you are feeling is a septum pierced ring. Nowbefore you get upset, I can assure you that the ring is NOT permanentlike your nipple rings." Linda took a deep breath but continuedlistening without struggling. . Her chains were slung over a black pipe that seemed to run from nowhere to nowhere. Above the pipe was only darkness.Sure. They were in the convent basement. But how did she get here? Maybe she’d walked without remembering it. Or she’d been carried. But Auggie couldn’t have done that alone. It would have taken both of them.Auugie laid her whip on a table beside the cross and picked up a couple of gadgets. She held one up to Kristen’s face — a copper clamp with ridged rubber tips, like something. She called me on the job to ask, “Do you have enough energy for us to have pizza by the lake and go back to the car wash and turn in early.”“Absolutely,” I immediately agreed.“So how is the play coming?” I asked on the way from the car wash to the pizza restaurant.“It coming along good. I did hope you would give me a few quotes from your long list of one liners from the cop shop,” she suggested.“Sure what do you need,” I asked.“Let’s just talk about it over pizza and our view of the lake,”she.