"I have his ashes. They're in an urn in the safe. I haven't been able to face dealing with them. Maybe now's the time. Maybe we'll make a shrine for t...em both -- somewhere in the barn." Are we having a service?" Corinne didn't want a service," he replied. "Often she'd say, if anything happened to her not to bother with a service." Service isn't for the dead -- it's for the living," Annie observed."True. Of course, most of her friends have fallen by the wayside since she got sick and had the. I stopped long enough to grab a few chunks of bread and cheese, as my body was desperately telling me to replace some of the energy it had expended just a few minutes ago, let alone whatever had been lost since I last remember eating.As I followed Dao-Ming towards the oversized bathtub, popping some cheese in my mouth, I admired the view as she gracefully dropped the robe from her flawless body, porcelain skin bright in the sunlight streaming through the window, her raven hair bouncing softly. "It's two minutes left in the first quarter. We have the ball on our thirty. Brian just picked off the interception so it's first down." Who's at QB? You or me?" We're running 32-right. There it goes, you take the snap..."She picked up the thread. "You're in motion and take the hand-off. Here comes their tackle, that big kid we've heard about..."In my mind I could see it so clearly. "They think it's a running play and come after me. You block him as I fade back and fire a rocket to Kevin...". Helena smiled. A voice from below shouted, “Look – she’s been saved. She’s alright.”More than alright, thought Helena. More than fucking alright!The woman tucked her cock back into her garment and buttoned her coat. She picked up Helena’s garment, hat and scarf and pulled the heavy coat around Helena’s shoulders; the hat and scarf she carried towards the stairs. It was the first time that Helena had set eyes on her.“Mistress, what’s your name?”The woman lifted Helena’s chin upwards to meet her.