A warm front was moving in from the south, causing the snow-clogged roads to turn into a river of oozing mud. Gnaths are huge animals with wide, gripp...ng feet that can travel at a shocking rate on almost any terrain. The same could not be said for Princess Alyssa's horse when she was on the animal. The poor beast was covered to the rump in mud and slush and its rider was looking none too pleased as she dismounted. She had been splattered up to her neck, spots of mud dotting her fine leather. "Hi, Julie," he said, "Haven't seen you in a coon's age. Think you're prettier than ever." What happened to you?" I asked, perching on a stool.He smiled. "Fell down the, the blasted steps, that's what, just carelessness. Cracked my head. Lay out there for a couple of hours. Dislocated the shoulder, broke the leg and fractured my wrist. Damnfool thing to do; foot slipped." You hurting?" Not much. Got some pain pills. Guy from the hospital, sometimes it's a nurse, comes around almost every day. It was suddenly silent while they both internalized their own thoughts.Lisa was looking forward to a special evening with this young woman. She knew her instructor and had great expectations in her abilities to please another person. Tom was an incredible lover, so incredible that she was going to ask Dee for permission to make love to him with intercourse, intercourse for the first time in her 34 years. She was more scared he'd turn her down than scared of the act itself. She was actually. Me and the other boys tried to settle him down some, but when he started getting’ a belly full of whiskey, he got more riled up than ever.”“We all just shy’d away from’im thinking he would cool off. I was sitting there when Roller said he was gonna go piss, sorry Miss Elizabeth, when he said he was gonna go out in the alley. I sat there for a bit then I walked out, I knew he didn’t sound right when he left the table, it was me that hollered at the sheriff to look out behind him. Roller already.