Shortly after 8:30, we reached a north-south stream that eventually fed the Platte River. It took us half an hour to find a spot with dried grass left...and we rode back until we intersected the tracks we had left earlier. Leaving a dry stick pointing them along the southernmost of the two sets of tracks, we headed southwest again. After letting our animals drink and graze, we continued southwest, headed towards a series of ridges that rose about four hundred feet above the gently sloping ground. “Thought you were never going to come round.” She said. “Oh Carla. That was so beautiful.” I whispered. “You are sweetest, cutest, most perfect thing I have ever known.” She said as our lips came together in a long, lingering kiss. “You still there John?” she said when our lips parted. “Yes.” John replied in a low voice that sounded as if he had just awaked from a deep sleep. “Did you come darling?” she asked. “Like there was no fucking tomorrow.” he replied. “Hope you didn’t make a mess on the. They would rape her again and again, until they bashed her into submission. Like Thomas. She’d seen pictures on the news, he’d been a handsome man. Young and fit. Now he was gaunt. Bruises marred his body. None of his posture was left. A normal person could never withstand such torture and disfiguration. ‘We have to get out of here Thomas! We have to! You have to know a way, there has to be something! Get me out of here Thomas, please!’ He hung his head and shook it. ‘Thomas! You’ve been here. One day when I was in my class I saw gayani miss outside the building waving at me through the window to me with a worried face.i thought she might be in trouble and faked an illness to my class teacher and went out to meet her.as soon as I met her she started crying and ‘guyanga.I am so sorry.but I’m so scared.i lost my boy somewhere and I can’t find apparently she was called to come today with her son for admission purposes and while she attended to some documents her son had gone missing.She.