Once inside the house, he led her to a back room and bent down.Kimberly watched in fear as the man pulled open a heavy hatch."Climb down," he instruct...d her, waving the gun barrel at her.Kimberly began climbing down the dark shaft and the heavy set man then lowered his rather large dog, and then climbed down to join his teenaged captive. When they reached the bottom, he turned on a light switch and faced her. The small room contained a cot bed, a television set, a chair and table but nothing. If you want to know about someone’s beliefs, you can ask and they can choose to tell. But even then I’ll have Dora and her AIs monitor AND fact check. Now I’m going to speak out of the other side of my mouth. I am the top dog in this colony, and I will not tolerate lies and partial truths - certainly no sedition.”“Now I know I’m giving you a fine line to walk,” he continued, “and frankly, that’s partly why you were authorized extra concubines. To do your job you’ll need diversity, because not. We’ve both changed a lot.”“And is that a good thing or a bad thing?” I asked.“It’s mixed, I think. In the long-run, it’ll be good, but the short-term has been pretty painful.”“I agree. I just wish you had talked to me instead of walking out on me.”Kara sighed, “No, because I’d never have gotten to where I am without sinking to the lowest of lows and realizing the only way out was to change myself. Doctor Mercer compared it to addictions - you refuse to acknowledge that you need help until. If see blood, I was fainting instantly, dropping like a rock, so I was avoiding seeing, watching, visualizing blood. It was so bad that I had to change my tampons without looking. Only my family and Emily knew about my condition.“Do you really faint if you see blood, Emma?” I heard Oscar behind me, the captain of the football team. “Oh, shit!” I said to myself, “now my secret is out!”“Nah, it was when I was little” I said, trying to divert the topic.“Ah, OK, not a good thing for our.