It was made to look like roses and was in black with enameled red roses. We sized her neck quickly and decided to get one a little larger to give her ...oom to grow with it. All told with delivery, it was less than $150 and it made her eyes light up when her mother approved of it when she returned to the room.Dan passed me his credit card to order it and Patty snapped at me not to memorize the number and we all laughed. I punched in the numbers and handed back the card with thanks and I finalized. It's only after a majority of the green embers settle on the ground that a few members relax enough to look back up."I-is it over? H-holy shit."Footsteps tap about frantically, then light returns to everyone's eyes with an electric hum from above. While the members groan as their vision adjusts to the brightness, Lecia's contracting eyes returns to the fire pit, full of ash, dying embers, and smoke.She shuts her eyes, trying to refocus on herself and her fellow members."Is everyone alright?". As I lapped up the dirty water the woman pointed out a half dozen small cameras installed around my cage and explained that my entire evening would be broadcast to subscribers on the internet. I had best not disturb the cameras. They were being monitored by someone in the house.I was sickened by her and by everything that she and her cruel partners in crime did to me today. But I was broken. There was no fight left in me. I suppose I never fully recovered from the things that happened to me a. He nodded his head slowly, like if he knew what I was thinking. “Not so fantastic. One of the men became jealous and killed another man. The man who died was Annie’s fiancé.”“Oh, and what happened to the killer?”“He was arrested, and sent to jail. The other members moved back to Stockholm, but Annie stayed. She once told the woman in the café that she wanted to stay where, Frank, which was her fiancées name, spirit lived. Since then she has lived in a small house in the forest some ten minutes.