She was awake, sitting up on the blanket they had tossed over her. "It flows into the Lomami, and the Lomami flows into the Great River." The Congo?" ...sked Louie."Yes." So we've been going in the wrong direction," cried Gene. "Jesus fuckin' Christ. We've been going upstream. If we want to get to the Congo, we should be going downstream!"Louie rubbed his head. He was confused and irritated."Downstream, you will die," Sheena said."How so?" said Louie."Guerrillas. Men and boys with guns and. The lives of the slaves were generally nasty, brutish ? or worse.Other characters in the original story included Stella’s niece, Lara; her stepson, Brutus Junior; a doctor named Sadie Thorne; and Rebecca, a slave who was one of the fortunate few to be promoted to a supervisory position. Lara’s full background was covered in more detail in the spin-off entitled‘The Ballad of Lara and Gemma’. At the end of ‘After the Pestilence’ Brutus Junior disappeared, apparently on an overseas walkabout.. Sitting on the chair she picked up 5-inchstilettos and pushed her stocking clad feet into them. She picked theperfume and sprayed it across her neck and under her arm pits. The smellwas intoxicating. She then picked up a small microphone which lookedalmost transparent and placed it in her left ear. She then covered it upwith her hair.She tapped a few times and said, "Is this thing working?" Yes, it works perfectly," the voice said in her ear."Very well, let's get this show on the road," she. They wereboth dressed just as he knew they would be."I didn't make it today, William did," Jenny offered."No!" Brianna gasped.William laughed. "You ladies have a good morning!" he went back to hisdesk.Later that morning William was sitting in a meeting and the same boringdiscussions were taking place. Evelyn came up with an idea that seemedto make a lot of sense to him."I don't know about that," Alan shook his head."Wait a minute," William interrupted, "I think she has something there."He went.