If you accept the collar, you will wear it for a long time, not just a few weeks. The winter will come and the cold wind will punish your exposed body... Everyone in your life will see you, day after day, week after week, month after month, in your condition of Penance. It will be up to the Creator to enlighten me when you are to be released, and you are not to inquire about being released until that moment comes. Do you understand me?’ Cecilia was horrified. She had come to the Temple simply. The man and his wife were the ones who appeared to be fatigued. " Have a nice one!" she called back to him as the adventurous femme started her own walk into the forest.The woods were silent today, as the summer's cicadas had mated and burrowed into the earth. Their young would return to the surface in seven years. Looking at the changing foliage the venturesome lass noted that in spite of today's heat there had been some cold nights in mid-September. As Brenda walked, her mind roamed to the. One lady could not be pleased no matter what I showed her. In desperation I contacted another agent who had the sole selling rights and agreed to share the commission with him if I could interest this lady in purchasing same from him.I arranged a meeting for all parties and the lady was impressed.She looked over the property and said she wanted to go home talk to her partner on the phone.Her partner was on an overseas trip for a few months but left the decision in her hands.We went back to. As I approach the town’s limits, I can feel the sweat on my palms as I grip the steering wheel. I don’t know where she lives, we are not meeting at her house. I don’t even really suspect that we will even go to her house for the three days I am here. I imagine every street I pass as I head toward my hotel, is the one that she lives down. I imagine that she might even be in the car in front of me, headed to the same hotel.She is supposed to call me at five, by then I hope to be checked in.