It was to be a ceremony like no other on Killjops. Once the fire was lit, I would transfer the mass to his brain and Carmaletta would be safe. I only ...oped that too much of her brain was not eaten away by this spore. I put Carmaletta and the mass into a very deep sleep, deeper even than the hibernation. Her breathing slowed to about a breath every 2 minutes and her heartbeat was down to 7 beats per minute.I told Snart and Florence, “Right now I have put Carmaletta and the mass into a very deep. ”It was a damned good thing I didn’t have a drink of something in my mouth, it’d have been spread all over the room. She waited for my explosion to calm down. It took a bit before I quit sputtering. “A video! That someone else took?”“Uhuh, I didn’t know he was.” She paused a bit, “I was kind of pre-occupied.” Yeah, I thought I’m sure she undoubtedly was! “He sent it to Jeremy’s phone later.”I finally calmed myself down enough to ask, “And the other three times? What about those?”“Those were in. So if it’s just been sex, and all my unselfish gestures go to waste eventually, where do I turn now? It’s always been about him. Whether it was this ‘him’, or that ‘him’, didn’t really matter. I’ve poured myself into making it ‘work’ over and over only accomplishing to tear a hole in some guy’s heart and leave myself drained and devastated. I’ve spent the better part of my adulthood trying to convince my spirit that life was easier with a man by my side. At the cost of many self sacrificial. Elise gave her most withering glare. The prostitute pressed on, undaunted.“Give up? Answer is two! Two flies screw in lightbulb!”Then the woman called YumYum peeled with laughter at her own joke, sending tremors through her fake bosom, as her companion chuckled riley. Elise scowled. And then Molly and Chester burst into laughter behind her. Elise looked sharply at her underlings, and they blushed and looked ashamed but continued to laugh.What was going on! That wasn’t funny. It wasn’t even a.