I just thought both of you might heal faster if you talked it out." I've got nothing to talk to her about, detective." I replied in hoarse voice. "We'...e finished."I saw Johnson out and returned to making my dinner. I took all of the preparations and stuffed them back in the refrigerator. I'd lost my appetite.I slept fitfully that night. I kept thinking about the last thing she had said to me that day when Eddie had all but killed me. As she was leaving with him she had bent over my head and. I had worked hard to get in because women were only just being accepted into the aircraft technical trades and I wasn't exactly built like a brick outhouse, or worse as some may describe it. I was slim and petite but tall, five feet and ten inches, in bare feet. I passed all the tests for my engineering knowledge but the trade training was hard. I was hopeless at exams! I failed so many because I couldn't find the right words for the answers so I mostly had to demonstrate my ability by actually. "I need to complete the people section of my course. I've done some kids in the park, a few of a colleague in the hospital garden in her scrubs, but there's a quiet strength about you, an aura of authority that I want to capture." That, I wasn't expecting," the words slowly escaped from me. "Honestly, that's how you see me?" I queried.Louise just nodded, her blue eyes watching me.We sat a few minutes in silence, me with my mind racing, Louise just letting me process my thoughts."OK, if that's. "I daresay that's how we'll be again soon enough. How long does the stuff stay in the system?" About three months. After that it gets tough again. Never mind, it's all for a good cause!"Two months after the exercise and the unexpected two hundred lashes, the pair were once more on patrol. This time the weather was worse than ever. Apart from Lieutenant Harrison, there were just Fran, Frieda and Henrietta. Harrison rode both girls hard, giving them all the hard assignments, while keeping.