….. She went limp and hung there in her bonds. I nearly passed out myself, but I forced myself to stay upright. There was much to do. I first just s...ood there. I was light headed and didn’t feel like it was safe to move, but also listening to her breathing. Once the dizziness passed I got the emergency blanket from my backpack and laid it on the ground. I then unlocked her ankle cuffs. Then holding her against me with one hand I unlocked her wrist cuffs. I then carried her over to the blanket. Dean could easily be a failure.”“Stop calling him that,” Pat demanded.“How about we get up? Talk about this at the table.”“I don’t really want to get up,” I said squeezing Kia’s fingers and laying my forehead on Xiomara’s.“Well I have to pee,” Connie announced, “I’ll be at the table.”The girls started making their way away from the beds. Renée and Andrea stayed behind to make the other one. Kia shimmied off of me to be on my left side. Xiomara and I had to wiggle further into the center of the. Shirley proved to be a quick learner with regard to tai chi and had soon mastered the basic forms. She must have mentioned this to Mags and one afternoon she approached me about Tai Chi. She had heard that it was a good form of exercise for older people and wanted to know if she could join our morning exercises. Since these morning routines were a limited form of the discipline I did not see any reason why not and told her so.I said to her that I would try and fit in some practice sessions. “You can always use the safe word” he said quietly. She shook her head. “Thanks but no!” she told him, “I’m going all the way!” she told him. “Okay” he replied. “To your corner” he ordered. Gina walked, unsteadily on her feet, across the room. In quiet contemplation she felt the pain and heat from her stinging buttocks. She knew the pain that came from the cane now but she also knew that more was to come. This time it would be worse because this time there would be no material between cane and.