Sam stood back watching Thantas shook her arm, then her eyes flew open when she felt her power creep up a bit. “I ... I don’t understand how?”�...I learned some time ago, each time I have to expand energy to use my abilities, the stronger they tend to return. Getting beaten somewhat, also tends to increase them. I’m not sure how, also, getting beaten by one of us Osmosis healers also increases it. For you I think you got a double dose from me and you.” Sam tried to explain.Thantas could only nod. It stays alive by sticking the white- owned media machines on our backs like wild monkeys, like the advertisements that the once-serious channels have become. It’s just survival, and we’re slowly but surely surviving here.”“I thought there’d be so much more.”“We’re drug dealers, okay Bianca?”“But I want a child, Reggie.”“You can’t have one. Our goal is to survive any way we can. Children don’t need to grow up in this shit.”Bianca put on her street clothes and said she would meet him at the. It took over and hour and a half to set his hair on the pipe cleaners using an entire bottle of setting lotion. Real torture. The set was secured with a pink setting net. Bob wheeled over the old fashioned bullet shaped hair dryer, placed cotton over Don's ears, dropped the hood and turned on the dryer. An hour later Don was dry but Bob wouldn't take the pipe cleaners out until after lunch.Around 2:00 Bob began removing the pipe cleaners very carefully so as not to tangle the hair. He knew. Her left nipple was still standing tall, but her right was broken and bleeding, victim of too many direct hits by the willow rod. Both nipple clamps had been beaten off. From all this and more, Laura wanted to scream. But the dildo jammed down her throat and held in place by duct tape prevented her. It wasn't as large as the other two, but still about 6 inches. Cole had inserted it after two hits, claiming that it served two purposes. First, she could not scream and disturb the.