Drizzling rain canvased the forest as I made my way to the temple. I felt his presence close by and somehow knew he was coming for the same reason as ...yself. It was not long before he was by my side and matching me step for step. We walked in silence, once again not needing words to communicate. However, it seemed as though our arrival at the temple was anticipated and there was no denying the strange feeling of ecstasy I felt float through me as we entered. I jumped a little as he took my hand. In one hand she held a leather paddle while from the other hung a strap threaded through a bright red rubber ball.?Ohhh, no!? I began as Angela advance towards me. Of course she took no notice of my objection, jamming the ball between my lips and buckling the strap behind my head.?Bottoms up,? she laughed as the three chamber maids wrestled me over so that I was bent across the end of the bed, my buttocks towards the ceiling.The heavy whack of the paddle stung into my bottom a second later. ?50. . I think it's finally going. Oh that's it, go on you big black cunt of a thing, piss off!" There was silence for a moment and then Anne making the announcement, "Going... going... gone."Then there wasn't a sound. 'Why the silence what's happening?''Anne's waiting to see if Meredith says something. Now she's counting out in her mind the way she used to when she was a little girl playing hide and seek. You know the routine, one-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand etc,. Vinay had a house here, and he was happy to put me up. I had plenty of study to catch up on, so I wasn’t so bored.I also knew Mossman and the other officers stationed there reasonably well. I wasn’t surprised that I got put on the nightshift. It’s either the most boring or the most exciting shift. For me, it was study nights.Being December, the crocks were active, and they had come up the Mossman River to make nests. I’d been in Mossman for three weeks when Carl, a tourist from Victoria, went.