.."Joey then jolted himself back to the present, where he was stilllaying in the bed with Vanessa (really M) L'Amour standing by the bed,looking conce...ned. Joey shook his head a bit, taking some time toregister it. "Ah yes, it is." So what happened after I went unconscious?" Joey asked as he didn'tremember past that point. Vanessa looked back and forth, then sighingheavily, replied, "Well Katt went to make sure the dance continued on,which thankfully it was. Morton called in the 'Cleanup Crew'. " She raised her hand and opened it, palmup. A shiny quarter was in her hand..."So... I'm going to flip a coin. One of you is going to see first handwhat it's like to be a street walker. The other... I don't know, I'll haveto adjust your memories, and maybe your personaltity a tad, and then letyou go with a warning."Bill and I nervously looked at each other. We wanted to know but wereafraid to ask."I know what you're wondering, what am I going to make the unlucky one do?Well it's fairly simple.. “That’ll work.”After another hour of lying back floating along through the city, the crewmen got up and poled the boat over to the wide low municipal docks.Marcos stood as they closed in. “Alright, four blocks up we get the women in the door of the house. Three blocks slightly to the right on the embassy row and we’ll find one of the foreign lodging houses. That will then take us directly to the Palace.” He looked around expectantly. “The women have priority. Nothing will happen, but they. Allison watched him, seeing the way he fumbled with his shirt buttons in his eagerness to strip off. As she did so she could tell that he in his turn was well aware of her watching him, staring back into her blank masked face at several points.“That will do,” June stopped him as he reached his underpants. “Use this.” She held out a red ball gag by its strap at arm’s length. Lionel took it and crammed the ball into his mouth as greedily as a hungry schoolboy with an apple. He reached up behind.