.. I can't explain... Maybe I just realized I am in the wrong crowd." Yeah, I know what you mean." You do?" Sometimes I think Marlene and Suzie go t...o far..." Why didn't you say so?" They were your friends, not mine..."Their conversation dragged on for another quarter of an hour until Rhonda made up an excuse and hung up. Rhonda was confused. She didn't know what to make of this new side of Tom's, sensitive and understanding... She shivered, as if she had seen a ghost passing in front of her. Locked in what amounted to a cage with them.Becky surveyed our expressions and carried on.“They knocked the ball about so I was always trying to save the point. I was playing with Mr Setright, and he never played a difficult shot to the others, he made it really easy, and they just played it to me, all the time, so that I could just about get to it but couldn’t hit it back anywhere hard for them.“So I lost the first point, after running around like a mad thing, retrieving. They all started up:. "Nothing so crude and so quick. Vengeance, to be effective, must be done with subtle cruelty so that the victim suffers over a long period of time, so that you may enjoy his writhings and twistings and his cries for mercy before the final moment when you tire of the sport and dispatch him to meet his gods. That is the Oriental way."She nodded. "I see what you mean. But how do I go about it? A slow poison perhaps?" No. Mental torture is the best. You must destroy his image of himself and the one. Cagliari.”"Oh, you did, pretty thing?" Yes. I'm your whore."It resounded throughout the whole living room.Alissa looked at me, her eyes wide again, shock all over her pretty face.“I’m sorry, I couldn’t leave it just to the memory. Don’t worry, you’ve been a good girl. This is between us. It’ll never see the light of d…”Before I could finish the girl was already running in my direction, heels and all.“Y-YOU BASTARD! YOU M-MONSTER!”She wasn’t very fast, with her wobbly legs from all the fucking,.