She tucked the lace of her black thong down before grinning mischievously; she kicked off the jeans and took off the thong, catching a glimpse of her ...haved black pubic pattern. Tucking the thong into her coat pocket, she pulled the jeans back on and slipped her feet into black ankle boots before putting on her coat. She was meeting Channing at a coffee shop of her choice before their planned afternoon and evening together, he wanted to show her around the seaside town and if her nerves allowed. It was a feeling that she had never experienced until now. An absence ofthe neutrality that the metal held in regard to those that had shaped itand poured its present form from the raw ore it had been wrested from.Iron was not something that she was used to feeling hostility from andthat was the only way that she could describe it now that indifferencehad become opposition. A deep antagonism that was rooted all the wayback to their beginning loomed larger now in her existence in ways thatit. His fellow travelers had not been so lucky. Three of them were arrested and sentenced to lives of hard labor in the weeks after the Ventok Massacre, as it became known. The fourth never was arrested, but that was because he died in an attempted holograv bombing attack of the regional stock exchange two months later, when a mis-set timer meant that the bomb went off 5 seconds after he had armed it, instead of five hours. He sometimes wondered if the timer had been mis-set purposefully, to. So you are telling me you’ve never had sex with a guy?”Her eyes were awash in tears and she crossed her arms under her breasts and held them close to her. She shook her head but kept her eyes locked on my face. I offered her a smile and then said, “Well that’s okay, my dear. It will happen at the right time and trust me; no man will ever be disappointed in making love with you!” I could not say those things and just sit tit there as tears began to spill from the corners of her eyes. I.