There was an awkward silence. She got a call from my brother. She left for her room to talk with her husband. Wait, Why did she pause before saying �...brother-in-law?’Lol. She just said she was not comfortable around me. All I can think is the pause before saying, ‘brother-in-law.’ I smiled to myself and got back to what I was doing, drinking.The rest of the day was fruitless. She was busy with some of her stuff. I was glued to the TV, sipping my booze to stay intoxicated. By evening she came to. " A pause. "Can I have some?" No way, young lady. Go back to sleep."She hesitated for a long time, her gaze wandering back and forth between Sue and me. I could tell that she was going to ask something, and surmised that it would be another request for some of our grass."Would you please fuck me, Daddy?"I swear, the first thing that went through my mind was the fact that she never called me Daddy. I glanced as Sue, my mouth open. Sue was staring at Sally through slightly glazed eyes. "Whatever. The Abbess, having turned her attention from the evidently satiated Gwendolyn, was poking, probing, whipping and worrying the helpless form of Mary, circling her, contemplating her, a jackal over a grounded dove. Tears coursed down her cheeks. With each smack she gave a long muffled groan and her legs buckled, her body shaking as she gave way, the ropes holding her up when she would have collapsed.As I witnessed the humiliation of these poor sisters I began to feel a heat rise simultaneously. Initially, their populaces, who were still dealing with theshock of their own transformations, seemed to accept this. Then fourweeks later, the second Changeday happened, we all reverted to how we'dbeen before the first one, and we assumed that was an end to it. Untilthe third Changeday, four weeks after that. That's when we got our firstinkling this might be the pattern of our lives from now on.Subsequently, the religious authorities in these countries appear tohave borrowed an idea from.