So does Pam. We want to nurse you.”Clint smiled and released the handle. The spray stopped. My little sister kept writhing and moaning, her face twi...ting. She trembled on the ground. Her toes twisted and shuddered. Her legs spasmed across the sodden lawn.“Come on, slut,” I said. Pam emerged from the house, a towel in hand. I snatched it from her and threw it at her. “Dry off so you don’t make a mess, you filthy cunt.”“Yes, Mistress,” my sister said with such delight in her words. She started. Sewed for a living. Worked for a dressmaker here in town now and again but more on her own. Lived here most of her life, I'm told, but no family to speak of. Many knew her, liked her. Never in any trouble or anything political." Why would she be down by the river?" Lived down there in one of those small, wooden houses. Got her feet wet when the Potomac rose. Probably went along there every day." And nobody saw nothing?" Beall asked, trying to size up the new constable who was a smallish man. At the start of their journey, it was the planet Earth and the Moon that first vanished to dot-like proportions behind them, but now the Sun itself was getting steadily smaller. It was still by far the brightest object in space and appeared to be many times larger than it was from the far distant Godwin colony.The many concentric levels of the space ship revolved around each other at different rates to maintain a force of one standard gravity on their surfaces. There was no direct link from one. "Settle any bothers?" I asked.She nodded again and whispered, "Yeah, we talked about some things that were bothering me and they're not bothering me anymore." Marie's very straight up Dee, so I'm glad you talked. Lisa is too, but you should know that if you have any kind of issues, take it to them directly. I know you're good at that, but that some people will take it the wrong way. Neither Lisa nor Marie will take it the wrong way. Ok?" Yeah, that's the feeling I get too Tommy. I really like.