Where didthey take you? What happened?"I cut him off by inviting him inside. I kept quiet and led him to theden motioning to Mom in the meantime. She ...ame out of the kitchen to seewho it was."Snake, I'm not comfortable to talk about those things yet. Too muchhappened and most of it bad. I was in the northern part of the US whensome FBI men found me." I didn't feel comfortable telling himeverything. I felt ashamed of what I had done and I didn't want him tobecome afraid of me. He might be if he. .. we weren’t going to find any happy surprises here.The downstairs level of the small two story keep was the main chapel area for the nuns along with smaller kitchen and sleeping areas. No ... the residents had not been gently dealt with and we found their rather abused and ravished carcasses decorating the mostly bare stone wall with more enthusiasm than any actual artistic merit. The young Fae girl and the nuns had been raped, murdered and then raped some more, maybe in that order. Then. Running Fox settled down with the two Crow scouts, while I spent time with the women and the lieutenant. I sat facing the women so that I would know immediately if anyone needed anything, but the lieutenant, very embarrassedly, sat with his back to the women. I wanted to laugh, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings. It was only later that I found out he was engaged to one of the women, but was going to cancel the engagement because she was no longer "pure." Had I known it at the time, I would. When I woke the next day I noticed Carlos was not there but a blackswimdress lay over the chair with a note from Carlos saying:"Dear StaceyYou have a long day ahead of you with the media and I thought you mayenjoy a swim first. I suspect you have not seen a swimdress before andare more used to women wearing bikinis or swimsuits but I thought you mayfeel less vulnerable in this.You were great last night.I am sorry about Megan.LoveCarlos."This was all clearly designed to keep me thinking of.