“What are we going to do?”I shook my head, “I don’t know, Joyce. We’ve been together for twenty-six years now, I don’t know what to do.”...��Me either,” Joyce confessed, putting her other hand on top of the one I was holding. The waitress came over and asked us what we wanted.“Two coffees and ice water please,” I requested while staring miserably at the top of the table. I sensed the waitress hesitating, but she didn’t speak before leaving to fetch the beverages.“One hell of a time to find out,”. I heard the alarm shortly afterward and reluctantly got up to try to start the day.I went and woke the children while she showered again. I guessed that she needed to wash the stink of betrayal off her body, but it was too late for that; I already knew. I had to try to pull myself together, if for no other reason than to protect the children. I tried very hard to act normally, but it is an onerous chore to act normally when your heart has been torn asunder by an act as cruel as a cheating. "So," Vald began, when I had my drink in hand. "How old were you the first time?" My first boy was when I was 15," I replied."No, I mean when you killed your first man," he said smiling. "I know you don't talk about those kinds of things. People just wouldn't understand, so I'm asking." I was twenty, he was trying to get onto our base outside San Salvador. Kid was trying to drive a car through my road block. I had nightmares for a year," I said honestly. "Fortunately there were local's shooting. Where are the ponygirls kept when they are not with the guests? How do the girls become ponys? Were you abducted? Do you have a family I can contact? I want to help you, but I need you to help me. I can't act until I know enough."The ponygirl looked at him and spoke again, with the same precise diction: "Sir, please rest assured that I and my sisters are here of our own free will. The ranch treats us all fairly and humanely. I enjoy my stay here, I am well cared for and there is nobody on the.