She wanted her daughter to be happy, but she was only fifteen. Having been reminded that fifteen would have easily been marrying age less than a hundr...d years ago, helped very little. Neither did it help that she, Adriana, had been the one to more or less suggest to her husband they go ahead and allow their daughter to marry. She knew that Paulette was hurting, but in recent months, she had become much like the sister that Adriana never had. Now the teenager would no longer be living with them,. From the chains, there likewise hung two nude female forms.There was an odd odour in the room. Mixed with the scent of fear, Brenda could detect the sweet smell of sweat and sex ... Both male and female! Brenda turned to flee up the stairs but was blocked by Cheryl and Wanda who were grinning like two Cheshire cats. Brenda screamed.Her two companions just laughed and calmly walked over to the pillories and chains and, grabbing candles from the sconces on the walls, held their lights up close to. He made a face, ' You're probably right, probably be better if we were in the office upstairs anyway. I shrugged, I'll be upstairs in a minute I said, want to go to the bathroom. I went in and took a piss, I stopped at the sinks and took a look at myself, I was tired, covered with a coat of dried sweat and dust. It only took a couple of seconds, I walked over and turned on the showers, stripped down and went in and showered. I grabbed a towel, soap and shampoo and in I went. I found. The «kami» never die.”“Analogous to the soul, though we would insist only human beings have souls.”“Because no other thing has life force? Or the spark of divinity?”“It’s more complicated. That is what we would call God’s ‘energies’. The soul is personal, individual.”“Which is very Western.”“I suppose that’s true. I don’t know enough to say. I think your worldview and mine are very different.”“Perhaps so; or perhaps we simply do not see the truth as clearly as we might. There are many things.