When we were rested, we stood and got ready to continue hiking. I looked at her, noticing that she stood a little closer to me than usual, and said, "...ould you like to leave the main trail? I've got a good map and compass so we'll be okay, but I wanted to get away from the usual places we'd find people."She grinned at me like I'd just asked her to join me at a nice restaurant and said, "sound perfect!"We started walking off at a tangent to the normal path. It looked like a fairly easy hike that. But right before I was about to ask him to elaborate on his life, he spoke up.“I need to get downtown tomorrow for a meeting, Bryce. Can you drop me off?” he asked directly.“Ummm…sure, Buck. Where do you need to go and what time do you need to be there?” I asked.Pulling a business card from his pocket, he said, “Some lawyer’s office in Regency Towers. The meeting is for nine o’clock sharp. Can you help me?”“Yeah, sure…no problem!” I said with a smile. “Those are some big guns. Did you do. I was totally bedridden for a month after I came home!"JESSICA "But she still took care of you, didn't she?"ROBERT "She was helping with my physical pain, but I'd started going through some mental anguish, I ... never told her about! I didn't want her to hurt ... I was taking one for the team, Jess!"JESSICA "I don't remember this time in your life at all Daddy, how old was I, when all of this had happened?"ROBERT "You may have been only two, maybe three years old, J ... your mother started to. Above me, Rose twisted and writhed. Her torso, arching magnificently, shook above me as I began to feast without restraint. She groaned as I gave her what she needed, what she so desired to have. I revelled in the act of giving, the art of swallowing her very essence. As her nectar slid down my throat, I became not only a different person, but I shared a part of her. It was an intimate, ancient connection which was being forged through flesh and bone combined. To this very day, it is a deeply.