"What's wrong with your leg?" they both said in unison sounding more like scolding wives than aunt or cousin. Looking at each other for a second they ...oth started to giggle and then turned back to their patient."Let's get his trousers off," said Nesho. Over his feeble attempts to remain clothed, the two women deftly flipped him over, untied his trouser lacing and pulled them over and off his legs."Ah, that must hurt," Sosho said as she eyed the yellowish bruise that went from the outside of his. As time went on, the unit became more and more ruthless in their procedures and the members, both male and female, were de-sensitized to the violence of suppression and disposal of opposing forces. It seemed to be totally appropriate in the case of most of the Looters, but quite often, it was all too brutal when used against the sometimes defenseless survivors.He had some ethical reservations at some of the methods being used as standard operating procedure (SOP) by the capturing units but felt. It took Madison several trips to bring all of her clothes up to Amanda’s apartment (Amanda didn’t offer to help, of course.) Madison remembered mocking Amanda for being poor back in school, but Amanda’s current place was almost nicer than Madison’s! She had to keep reminding herself that Amanda didn’t come from money. Madison even got in a back-handed compliment (‘Amanda, you’ve come so far! I’m so glad that college accepts food stamps now.’) Amanda wasn’t entertained. Neither was Madison. " She sat back on the blanket and faced the open water. The old man looked at her back and tried to remember when he'd last seen a woman's naked breasts. It had to be more than forty years ago, he thought, that little girl over in Charleston. He spent a few minutes trying to remember the girl's name. It was at a picnic, he remembered, but he didn't remember why she'd taken her shirt off. Oh yeah, he thought, it was Agnes, and we were at that-anti war rally in the summer of 1966 or 67. He hadn't.