”“Don’t worry Tammy.” Josh said, “If they do they will have me to answer to. Hopefully we can do it again sometime.”“Maybe.” I said, w...th a smile. While it may have started out as rape, I didn’t try to stop them at any point really, and I had to admit that I had enjoyed being used like that. It was certainly better than anything I had done before.Five minutes later they boys were with their parents and dad drove us home. I felt weiry so walked slowly into the house. Dad had put the light on and. Russell and the rest of the Sorrowed had built a village of homes and other buildings. I walked over to Russell, I had questions that I needed answered, he seemed to know the most. What is Ground Zero? I asked It was once a quiet, peaceful village, everyone got along in harmony… Russell paused The Bled raided and killed everyone, murderously raping women and children, they tortured everyone with brutal intentions, took over the village, making any survivors their slaves Russell paused again. He just got his PhD from Princeton. Told me at a local meeting that he came to the sticks because he loves the desert.’ ‘What’s his field?’ ‘Surfaces. He will blow you away with surfaces.’ ‘You know, we are going to have to do magnetometer runs over the mine property. DR already asked me for it. If you hire him as a consultant, he could help with subsurface mapping. Help DR figure out about the pipe.’ ‘Theo, it is so early for you to make my brain work. I can’t keep up.’ She squeezed my hand. They take care of all the ... not so nice facets of motherhood.”Her face took on a bit of glow when she talked about her nephew. I liked her that way and my smile must have shown it, because she stopped talking, and demanded, “What? What is with the smile, mister?”“Your whole face lit up when you started to talk about him. It makes you even prettier.” It wasn’t a line. She glowed even through the scraggly hair and unmade up face. Raising her orphan nephew agreed with her. “He must be very.