I tried very hard to avoid large crowds of emotionally charged people. I was able to block the emotional energy, but there was a lot of leakage in my ...hield. It was completely self-taught, so I wasn't sure even how I was doing it, let alone where the leaks were coming from.I spent more and more time rock climbing. As with Splay, it was a way to be alone when I might otherwise have been with Teddy. She said it out loud the first time, before I had a chance to even formulate the thought for. “Why?” Salpaad asked, standing with her hands on her hips.“Because they’ll eat you up as surely as if you were a sheep or a man. But the males… the males prefer to use us women for other activities.”Mahlah surveyed the horizon as she gathered her breath.“When you were asking about the elongated body parts… the part which is elongated…” Mahlah curled the fingers of her right hand into an open fist. “Their cocks are…” Mahlah drew her open fist out from her crotch up past her belly button. Salpaad. Her only daughter, fourteen-year-old Candy, was now defiled forever, pregnant by a black high-school boy.Candy was no longer the pure, innocent, chaste young lady appropriatelyunaware of life's dirtiness.Whatever would she do?"Mr. Curley," said Officer Jones. "Let's talk alone for a moment." Just a minute, Leigh," said Dad as he gently extracted herself from Mom,and followed Officer Jones into the other room. She just barely heardOfficer Jones's hushed statement to Dad, "There is a way...". I just want her to tell me about it. Katie told me that she would not want to go through it by herself. She told me that if the right situation comes around, she wanted me there to watch. She told me that it is part of her fantasy. To have me there watching her. I was surprised and told her it sounds like it might be fun. We then had great sex again.A few months later we were invited to a friends wedding. It was far away so we booked a hotel room for that night. Katie looked amazing as usual..