" That's not funny, Rob," Elaina retorted in a mild panic. "I could never keep humans as 'pets' or whatever." She looked truly concerned."No, love, th...t's not how I meant it." He gathered his thoughts. "Folklore and mythology usually have some sort of basis in fact. Truth gets distorted over time and legends are born. I don't think thralls actually existed, but perhaps there were vampires in the past who retained willing humans as, I don't know, maybe employees. In trade for room and board,. ’ The detective said. ‘What a cluster fuck,’ the deputy said. ‘My thoughts exactly,’ Roger said. ‘You shut the fuck up,’ the detective said. ‘Back off, he is only following protocol,’ the deputy said. ‘We need to get him away from here, out a back door or something.’ ‘You want to put a block bag over his head’ the detective said. ‘We don’t have black bags in the trunk of our cars,’ The deputy asked. ‘I have a hoodie and some big reflective sunglasses,’ Roger said. ‘Get them and get ready to. ..* * *Kelly defiantly stalked into Wrigley Field Bar and Grill to apply for awaitress job. Just yesterday, her therapist had denied her surgery letterbecause she had spent the last year holed up in her Fort Wayne apartment,deliberately avoiding social interaction while she slowly reshaped herbody and mind. She had never worked in a restaurant, didn't know crap about baseball;and, more importantly, had never worked a day in her life as a girl. Shewas, quite simply, utterly terrified. The young. Aisha led Lila to the cross. A stepping stool was at the bottom of the device and Lila climbed onto it. Facing the cross, she raised her arms, to reach the shackles that Aisha then fastened on her wrists. Aisha then removed the stool leaving her to hang, momentarily, by the wrists. This extra pain, though uncomfortable, did not bother Lila too much. All things relative, it paled in comparison to what she knew would come next.Aisha fastened her ankles to the shackles at the two beams at the.