”She said, “Don’t worry, we’ve been married a long time andcan use a little new conversation. Sit down if you’re notin a...hurry.”They had a large blanket spread out. They sat at one end ofit leaving ample room for me to sit. I sat down and webegan idle chatter for a bit. I was sitting at their feetfacing them. The woman was sitting cross-legged and the manhad his legs bent up so that his chin rested on his knees.They were about mid-forties I estimate and not. While it seemed to other faculty, staff and students she detested handing out and administering corporal punishment and would feign displeasure, most definitely in private, she would turn out to be a hairbrush extraordinaire, who had a great propensity in the use of the wooden discipline instrument. Believe me when I tell yah as I was to find out first-hand as she targeted my behind.For me it was the culmination of what was a deeply held fantasy that for so long had seemed unattainable, and. Wow that sounds selfish,” she said “ No it’s not, well anyway sure I can get you all the water you want cause I have a well so take all you want.” “ Really! So you can use water and everything ” “ Yeah ”, as I motioned to the kitchen “ You think I could take a shower cause I haven’t taken one today and I don’t know how long before the powers back or my parents get home. ” “ Yeah sure I don’t mind and my parents aren’t home either so they don’t have a say in it, but I’m sure they’d let someone. Whether it was true or not, it was true to them and they knew it in their bones.And who was to say they were wrong? Certainly not me, I was already walking around on my next world. It was plain and simple to me too. I didn't know whether a God or a spaceman had moved me here, but I was on my second world already, and that was a personally observed fact.Our Zakat was feverish by now, in spite of all the doctoring and praying the Matatu had done to him and for him. The formerly captive women had.