“What are your normal monthly operational costs?”“Twenty-five thousand a month.”“How much would you charge as rent?”“I suppose I could g...t by with thirty-five thousand a month.”“I’ll make it thirty-eight a month if you’ll update the computers.”“That would be acceptable.”“Good. How would you like to be paid? Dollars or Bitcoin?”“Bitcoin.”“I’ll make arrangements to transfer thirty-eight thousand dollars worth of Bitcoins to you every month.”“You aren’t going to be doing anything illegal, are. A solidly-built blonde woman, her hair in pigtails, entered behind the man. Beth was dimly aware that Sophie was screaming.Beth looked down at her body. An angrily pulsating red line was drawn from her right collar to the middle of her upper belly. Her bra had been cut, exposing her budding breasts. Her left one was split like a piece of fruit, fatty flesh visible behind a river of blood. Below that, white bone was visible beneath sliced flesh. The bottom two ribs were clearly broken, the. There was another hushed silence in the room. Then my Aunt Emmaline took over.“Bernard,” she said, “Stick out your tongue!”“What?”“You heard me,” said Aunt Emmaline. “Stick out your tongue. And next I am going to clap my hands. And when I clap, I want you to grab onto Jessica’s legs and shove your tongue up into her hiney hole. Shove you tongue up there as far as you can and lick it! Lick it! Do you understand? And keep licking until I clap my hands again!”Well Jessica and I were both. "The whole world has gone crazy! Except for us it seems. Susan?" Carl couldn't finish. Susan was his girlfriend. "We weren't affected by this change even though almost everyone else was. But we still plan on going ahead with the wedding," Shelly said. And knowing Carl needed to be kept busy, continued, "We need you to do a very important job for us Carl. We need you to greet everyone as they arrive and find out who each one is. Then take one of these nametags that we bought on the way.