The lab is almost desolate, with just Yoav, Ellie, and I rattling around." A sudden increase of background noise from her end startled me. "What was t...at?" A few friends just came looking for me--we're going out together. I'll call you Wednesday, and I promise we'll talk longer then." All right. Take care, and I love you." I love you too."After hanging up, I waited for the dial tone, then called Maddie. There was no answer, so I hung up again and went to make dinner. I tried again at eleven. ”I raised on my legs and stumbled forward slamming her back into the wall of the shower. We were out from under the direct water and she grunted as we hit but I fucked her hard and fast.“You want it? You want it in you, slut?”“Yes, I’m your slut, fuck your kitten slut. Breed a litter into me.”“Fuck...”“Yes!” Her legs lifted and wrapped around me and I felt like a firehose was going off. “Yes, yes, yes!” I leaned forward, holding her with pressure against the wall. She got her legs under her but. ”His answers were as helpful as ever. As they struggled through the bowels of the village, Lena began to notice splashes of color amongst the ashen trees and the brown mud. There were flowers growing here, clinging to whatever they could grasp with their roots. They were behaving somewhat like creepers, unable to grow in the mud itself, but thriving where the mangroves made the earth firm enough to take hold and climbing up the wooden supports. There were flowering shrubs, clumps of dark green. ’ the earnest response drew Lauren to sit up in bed. Julia put an arm around Lauren hoping to coax the truth from her. Lauren nearly shut down. She had never imagined she would have to confess this deep in her soul to Julia. She couldn’t even fathom looking in Julia’s eyes and telling her all that she had gone through trying to vanquish a demon that nearly conquered her. In those thoughts, she remembered the emptiness, the irresolvable fear that gripped her every moment. Lauren opened her.