I felt a challenge rising in me. How is it that I could be so attracted to him and he was completely unaffected? I mean, sure the rain had washed away...my make up and my hair was still wet, but I wasn’t hideous. So, I sat there in equally stubborn silence eating half the box of doughnuts. I felt myself getting very tired as I watched the fire. I had thought Evan to be asleep, but then I looked over and realized that he was staring at me. Who knew for how long he’d been watching me stuff my face,. Her mom kept shaking her head from side to side and hollering out "no" but she could tell she really meant "yes" because she was giggling and laughing as well. Uncle Bob must have known she wanted him to continue as well because he suddenly started to go faster and her mom's ankles rose high in the air with tense emotion.All she could hear now was the slap of their meat coming together and it made her feel strangely frustrated that she couldn't play this game too. Her mom's whimpers were soft. "Amanda," Ned pushed his way through the crowd. Ned stood out because he was one of the few clothed people in the Great Hall. "Amanda, it's almost time." Amanda, one more thing before you go on stage," Kelly extended a velvet-covered jewelry box, a rectangle that was 40 centimeters long and narrow. "This was my slave collar. I last wore it when I visited Florida with Hank a few months ago. Would you honor me by wearing my slave collar?"Amanda's jaw dropped. She could only nod as tears trickled. At the very least their hearts were clear from one doubt; news of Virgil’s Pasture’s triumph already reached the surrounding villages....Zax watched the night sky from the rooftop of the fifth cottage. ‘Superficially the sky looks the same as the illusion of the Nightly Cover formation’. He stared in fascination as there was deepness beyond the facade of the Nightly Cover formation.Like that he closed his eyes and fell asleep....Two days later.At the outskirt of the village“Mendor, hero Zax,.