“This is Lilly Beth’s and Ladd’s home,” Ezra told her, remembering the maps.“THERE SHE IS!” Kit screamed and rode her horse into the river...at full gallop.Lilly Beth looked up when she heard the scream and started running toward the river to meet Kit.The others rode their horses out into the river and across to the other side as they watched Kit bail from her horse to tackle Lilly Beth as she stood in knee-deep water. They were still hugging and laughing as the others rode up.Little Eli swung. It wasn't an uncommonoccurrence. She certainly had no memory of the return home. She wasalso deeply humiliated and disgusted by what she had become. She turnedred at the memories of the night before. She was such a shameless slut.Shame and disgust were common companions upon waking up in the morning.She kept trying to find a way to escape Rory's grasp. Rory providedlittle opportunity for information gathering. There was no computer inher apartment. The reading material was limited to. I thought that since it was raining I would be able to get through before anyone knew I was in their territory. I was almost through the Projects when it started to rain harder and the lightening begin to flash. Absentmindedly I ran up on a nearby porch and stood there out of the rain, the door to the apartment opened and two huge black dudes stepped out besides me, one on each side. Shaking with fear I steadied myself and eased forward, trying to keep them behind me so I could break and run at. The dais in the center was soon in full view. I caught my breath; a womanstood there, regal, beautiful. She turned and delivered me a smile thatshould have been magnificent, coming from such a lovely face, but wasn'tquite that way; there was something weirdly out of place in it. I foundmyself climbing to stand next to her. She turned away from me and liftedher voice. The noise in the hall diminished instantly--everyone there,perhaps five hundred people or more--seemed almost as bound to listen.