She didn’t tell Mary or anyone else what she was thinking: That a day of being dead felt longer than an eternity of being alive, and that an eternit... of eternities felt like too much to bear. Had she been alive still, she’d have killed herself to put an end to the entire affair. But being dead, she had no choice but to abide.She gave the others polite but melancholy smiles whenever they looked her way, and soon enough everyone stopped bothering even to do that. Eventually, the family forgot. “Now, first things first. Ladies, my name is Sebastian, I am in charge here. As long as you behave, you will live. If you cease to behave, or cease to amuse, you will die. Ramon here takes great pleasure in killing.” The way he said ‘amuse’ made the girls skin crawl. “Ruben, Bora, leave us now. Wait outside, you may receive a further reward later. Ramon, pay them double the usual rate.”Ramon handed the two men thick envelopes which they took greedily, already tearing them open before the door. ”Agent Callas said, “Wait, Charlie has a BROTHER?”Jim got an evil grin, “Yes! And I’ve seen what they can do together. A whole squad of Ninja’s wouldn’t stand a chance against them. And THAT time, they WEREN’T pissed off ... Well, not as pissed as he is now.”“And WE don’t have a whole bunch of rules to follow!” I snarked.Fred was looking at Jim with a concerned frown. Jim shrugged his shoulders, “They’re going to be trying to save their dad’s life. And We are going to let them do WHATEVER it. He undressed and we hopped into the hot tub and he said we had half an hour before I was getting a massage, it was so warm and bubbly and I felt I was floating in a sea of tranquillity as we fooled around giving each other little kisses and a bit of fondling when there was a knock on the door, “come in” Al yelled and a slim petite young girl walked through the door dressed in what appeared to be a white karate outfit, it was almost like satin as it shimmered in the dim lighting of the room,.