‘Angel, I think we could use some light.’ I moaned through the thick cloud of pain that swirled around my head. Angel stood up and, within a matte... of moments, we were surrounded with a reddish-gold light. I held my arm out, so she could see how bad it was broken. With a gasp, Angel sat down and started tearing strips off of her robe. It was completely broken. Bone pushed through the skin like pins into a voodoo doll. The bone blocked most of the blood from spurting out of my arm. But the drops. With the exception of Friday nights.Ellen made it clear she wanted to be rested for her Saturday morningworkout with Derrick at the gym.They maintained a professional relationship at work with absolutely nopublic shows of affection. They thought they had everyone fooled untilthe day Kellie caught Heather alone in the bathroom. As they stood nextto each other repairing their lipstick, Kellie looked Heather in the eyeand said, "Heather, I don't know who you think you're fooling."Heather. We looked over the Colonel's stock one last time but we'd already bought a ton of stuff from him earlier and didn't see that much that was new. There was a bit more winter gear now in stock, arctic survival stuff and the like and we added a few more things that I hadn't noticed on our previous shopping trip here. For that stuff we paid in green paper Franklins.Our machinist savant lived relatively nearby outside of Bastrop and taking the county road going up the Colorado River we did pass by. Serena smiled wickedly at my discomfort."Stop wriggling. I can assure you that it doesn't help." Yes, Mistress."She giggled at that and I chalked up today as a success. Any day that I made her laugh was a success in my book. Soon, but not soon enough for me, I turned into the car park. I was about to park in the usual place when she gestured to the far corner."Let's park over there for a change."I sighed at the vagaries of the female mind and did as she bid. For the life of me, I couldn't think.