I'd lost him. Talon was dead. I felt despair rear up to swallow me and I welcomed it as the tears poured down my face. Talon, I whispered in my head, ...'m so sorry.: Giving up on me a little quickly, aren't you?: I heard Talon say, though not with my ears.I raised my head up, peering around me but not seeing anything besides the mutilated corpses I'd created. Then the air shimmered and a figure walked out of the trees. Blood covered him almost completely, making it impossible to tell his color. You are pledge 16. On the heels of one of the best nights of my life, things were only getting better for me. I paced around the dorm for the next few hours, got dinner, ran a few laps around campus, and by 7:30, I was out the door on the way. Was I being invited to a fraternity? It’s nearly impossible to get in at our campus! Only the wealthiest and most elite got in, and I was neither. I was ecstatic. I would do anything. When I showed up at the gates, it was a much different scene. The. Well, no. It’s through your mind that I will ultimately have complete and utter control of your body. Once you are properly trained you will be worthy of me. But for today, your punishment will be a demonstration of how pathetic and worthless you are in your current form. And the heights you will need to achieve for me, your Mistress.” Mistress Trixy gave a sharp tug on Peter’s chain to remind him of his position. Peter looked up at her through wide expectant eyes. “We need one more. Let me tell you, there were some full chamber pots before it was over! Even Elizabeth came to the realization that there were some things that Pa Jeff couldn't fix.Everybody survived, including all of the animals, and one of the first comments from Running Fox was that we were lucky that this was not a really bad storm. He attributed that to this being the wrong time of the year for the really bad storms. I couldn't help wondering if he was kidding me, but a check with Abe Jackson bore him out..