"Do you think they'll keep going?" Jewel gripped her staff tightly, watching them disappear into the trees."I think so," Amy answered. "No supplies, n... weapons and one of them crippled? They won't be any more trouble to us, or to anyone else for a while."Jewel prodded the grunting, snorting pack beast with her staff, hurling Khamusani curses impartially at it, her scratchy tunic and trousers, and the complete lack of civilized amenities like scented soap, silky underwear and hot water."You've. That was a great felling. I came out, we cleaned each other again, and she then openly said what she wanted to do next.- "I know this is a new experience for you, and I see you are worried". She said.- "That's quite an understatement". I replied-"The one thing I can promise, is that the pleasure is worth the pain".As I contemplated she might be worth trusting, and thinking about how pain is hardly an issue for me, I thought about taking the chance and trying this new thing. The whiskey helped,. **************************************** Sara would have been quite surprised to discover that Jerry and Jeff were already in Detroit before she had even left Ohio. "Jeff, don't be such a CUNT!" Growled his partner. "I'm so tiwed Jewwy." "You'll be a lot more tired if Tony Barrotti get the wrong picture- DEAD tired!" "OK ladies, the boss says you can go up- after I frisk ya!" The pocked marked face gave a generous leer. In spite of the dowdy clothes these girls were wearing, you didn't have. & its been months. I feel like i really need a date." I was kinda shocked she asked if us goin to a movie could be a date. "Thats kinda an odd thing to say Chelsea, we are cousins. You wana say goin to a movie with your cousin is a date?" She said "Just act the way you would with any other girl." I told her "It'll be hard for me to pretend you are not my cousin." She said, "well could you just hold my hand when we walk & put your arm around me in the theater, since we are seeing a scary movie i.