“Ok, great.”Ceilidh kissed him on the cheek, laid a hand on his arm, and looked him on the eyes. “Don’t overthink it, Nick. It was vacation se.... I had a really good time.”Nick wasn’t sure how vacation sex was different from any other sex, but it sounded enough like absolution that he found himself nodding. “So did I. I do hope you’ll be around, Ceilidh.”She gave him an enigmatic smile and headed downstairs. Nick climbed up one flight. He had to admit he was a little relieved Ceilidh wouldn’t be. Once you were out I brought you down here. You see, you are in my very own dungeon beneath my house. I hope you like it. And nobody knows you are here.” “But when I did not go home people will start to look for me. Pohnpei is not so big. My friends will try to find me” I said.“No, they won’t,” Hiro responded. “They think you are dead”.“What?? Why would they think I am dead?” my voice getting louder and more agitated. I didn’t like the direction this conversation was going.“Because the police. Ammon said to both of us, “I am going to have drink would you two join me?”Brandi replied real quick, “Yes, I would like a glass of white wine, I know my husband would enjoy a scotch and water.”Brandi was really caught up with this African man and his knowledge of safaris. She is even going to start drinking, there should be a danger sign going up. The drinks arrived and we continued conversing, with Brandi still doing most of the talking. Brandi and Ammon put their drinks down real fast and. A picture in a school book from a section on the industrial revolution and child labor caught my imagination and inspired a powerful urge to live out the picture. http://rodriguez9-7.pbworks.com/f/mine.jpg A barefoot and almost naked boy about 13 or so was tied by a thick rope around his waist to a wheeled cart loaded with coal. He had to crawl painfully on his hands and feet thorough a low dark passage in the mine pulling the heavy load. The boy's agony aroused Dave and he relived this.