The elders had convened a great meeting, the first of its kind, in which representatives from a hundred villages had traveled to debate this proposal....In the end they had agreed, pledging kinship to the Brokers, and in doing so compelling the disparate tribes to come to their aid.The Krell had left their planet by the tens of thousands, the Brokers arming and training them for conflict. They bestowed technological wonders upon them, weapons that could kill from great distances, armor that made. So I applied eyeliner, mascara and justa hint of smoky eye shadow that I smudged on near the outer corners ofmy eyes. My skin looked just fine, I thought, so I skipped the rest.Next I dabbed a bit of my favorite perfume on my wrists, on my neck andbehind my ears, just as Natalie had taught me.The clock said only five-thirty, so I stopped for a moment and thought,'What can I do in half an hour?' Easy stuff first - a pair of smallsilver hoop earrings and a wrist bracelet. Then the hard part -. She didn't normally wear thongs, but that is what I was picturing in my head as she walked away.The evening wore on a bit, dinner long gone, we continued to talk. She was nursing a margarita, and I was drinking mine. She was driving so what the hell. We sat there, I continued to think of her great breast and imagine a thong shrouded ass. Finishing our drinks we headed for the door making our way to her sister's car. As we walked the parking lot, our hands joined together. We got to the car,. Unfortunately, he had managed to hang himself from the bars with a twisted part of the sheet. They were uncertain if it was some kind of kinky game or intentional suicide. That ended that chapter of her life forever and all she could think was "Good riddance"The very next day, they moved from the tiny motel room into the large house with the wide staircase and the full basement filled with things from a much happier time. She even saw her toys from her childhood in one corner of the spacious.