As she walked behind the boy toward the torture room, she was nowhere near as calm as she acted with the boy nor as casual as she acted with Presphene... She was nervous. This was the third biggest change in her life since her parents had died. First, Salidia had changed her from a nobody whom everyone could abuse into the de facto third in command, in charge of the torture room and slaves. Then Talig had given her a knife and taught her how to use it, and now she was one of the most. I cried for days after."We sat and talked late into the night, about Fred, about us, about the Sundowner; mainly reminiscing about Fred. When we went to bed Jess was cold and snuggled her back against me. During the night she woke several times crying, I tried to comfort her as much as I could. When morning came we were both washed out. I started breakfast but no one seemed to interested.Wally called for a day of mourning, he rang the head office and gave them the bad news about Fred and let. He said to his wife do you know this guy from Before? No said Betty wjhy you ask. Just askin he said. Betty came up to me and smiled and said Hallo and said my husband Thinks I know many people. Ok I have a job in where I meet m,any people and can not remember them all if you know what I mean. Thei invited me to sit down in the livin room and Bettys Hubby handed over a bee to me.. He asked med what kind of profesion do you have? I am a enginner I answered. Yours then? I am a truck driver he. She had an excuse that she was taking me to her former College on a weekend orientation so that I could see the campus, and decide if I would like to go there. I also told him that I knew my mother and boyfriend would love the idea because it would give them an opportunity to fuck as much as they wanted. When he asked about what my father would do for the weekend, he looked at me with a blank expression, when I told him that he would love the fact that my mother and I were out of the house for.