One he didn’t recognize. The other he knew to be Leyla.“What is this?” Vix said.“Proof of your character,” Leyla said. “I wouldn’t have ...one the same.”“I’ve been here since his imprisonment. I didn’t know that other goblins were hiding around, but no others visited him. He clearly could have escaped and didn’t plan this show of good faith,” Dara.“Release him,” Leyla said.Dara got her keys and opened Vix’s cell.“Thanks, but even if you tell others the truth, nobody will believe it.”“Don’t be so. Their singular submission to the naked and wet proximity of each other was a passionate kiss under the flowing water before Katie turned the shower off.“I’m wondering if people think that I’m walking funny today,” Katie said.“Why?” Cile asked. “Are you sore?”“Not really, which surprises me and doesn’t surprise me at the same time. I hadn’t had sex with a guy in more than three years, which is why I expected some discomfort. But I was so ready for Tyler, our bodies fit together so perfectly, and. Yet, the fire from the barrel bathed her in waves of blistering heat. Its forked spew of flickering yellow and orange light casting away the shadows of all the figures surrounding her and it. Casting away the sparks and ashes of all she had left to own in this world. There, into that rusted old oil drum, had she deposited the very clothes from her back… right down to her last pair of clean, cotton panties. Mother had ordered it so… just as she had ordered the donation of all the rest of their. CRACK! "six" CRACK! "seven" I wimpered. CRACK! "eight" CRACK! "n..n..nine" CRACK! "ugh, ten" At was at this point that my legs started to tremble and get weak. It was by far the most pain I'd ever felt. CRACK! "eleven" CRACK! "twelve" CRACK! "thirteen" My legs finally gave out and all my weight was pushed down on the saw horse. I could literally hear it moan as my weight pressed down on it. CRACK!.....CRACK!.....CRACK! "uh, um, fourteen" I wimpered. "Sorry bud" my uncle said "you messed up,.