I wish I held out, but that was just the beginning of my plight. Once during the lantern lit night I cried out and spilled the stones. By then I cou...d feel the cum pooling around my feet. The townsfolk must have each had their tries and been moved onto seconds. They all laughed and taunted me while the women stood at edges of the square and stared. I wondered how many of them had been sentenced to this same unspeakable horror.From vacant looks on many of their faces, I knew the. As I unpacked in my room, I could hear Mom start the bath. The sound of water suddenly gave me the urge to urinate. A thought entered my mind. I wondered if my mother would still be as casual as she once was about sharing bathrooms. I figured that no one would be the worse if I gave it a shot.I walked out of my room and to the bathroom door. I knocked."Yes Martin?" Mom answered.It was a gamble, but I responded, "I'm real sorry, but I was just wondering if I could sneak in and relieve myself. “Alright,” he said, and shrugging at Fiona and Damien, he followed after the enormous bird. “What’s your name?”“I am the City Sky.” It nodded, cawed, and continued along. Birds could walk, and it was often easier for them to do so than fly, from Jack’s experience. But seeing a giant bird do it was bordering on hilarious.“City Sky? I ... I suppose, yeah, crows do represent the sky of a city, in a way.” The name made him smile. Fellow citizens, denizens of the sky. He had it right.“Jack,” Fiona. They taped it up and I kept playing. We won, but after the game it hurt like hell getting the tape off.The next day I was supposed to go up to help Melody with her homework. I rode my bike down and she saw me hobbling up to the house. She came out to help me to the house in some skimpy shorts and a tank top. She asked what had happened and I told her about the twisted ankle. I noticed her mom wasn’t home. Her mom was a nurse who occasionally had to work weekends. This was one of those.