Again on the edge of ecstasy Amy began writhing on my lips. The chain wrapped round my waist three times, chains ran from it to meet ankle cuffs of th... same steel as collar and bracelets. Someone fixed a web of chains over my chest. They tighteneduntil I could barely breath, I saw a huge dark hole and fell into it, down and down and down until I disappeared from sight."So it is now done my Daughter, all that was is gone and none of it shall you remember. As the chains showed the link to me so. " Of course. What's so important that it couldn't wait till morning?" I asked."Are you married to Sheila Burke?" Yes! What happened? She must not have come home last night." Mr. Burke, I'm so sorry to have to tell you this, but your wife was killed in an accident around three this morning. We need you to come down to the morgue and identify the body. We also need to talk with you." What? Accident? Sheila is dead? My God! What happened?" Mr. Burke, we can't tell you more till after we talk to. " I shut my eyes. Different pieces of general relativity startedbubbling up from my memory: a Nova special on Quantum Physics, an articlein Omni in a dentist's office, a report that Tommy Feathers gave in fifthgrade science."Relativity states that time is affected by gravity, but that it slows asthe gravity increases," I said. "This bathtub drain analogy doesn't reallywork because it implies that we're speeding up as time winds down." Ididn't know how I was accessing this stuff; Bardo was. If I hadn't been tucked... but then he stopped. "You see?"I did. So much more was clear to me now, and I decided that I would enjoythis special day to the fullest. I felt briefly like I was cheating onNicki in some way, by not telling her about my desires. I don't know howshe would react, and I didn't want to wreck what I had. But I realized,sitting there in my feminine persona, released at last, that I would needto someday. But, today, I party.The girls offered me two shoes, one set of nice.