"By this time next month, nothing resulting from the use of your power will be illegal. The Institute will decide when you've crossed the line. This i...n't going to be a line! There is no sex without a Positive. We cannot consent because we cannot decide to do it for ourselves. We're empty; you are life! The girl was blind, so how exactly is it that she could decide the light is evil?"I watched him as he got up. The Director stopped at the door. He turned his head back to meet my eyes."It's hard. The cry that escapes my lips is nothing but pain. At least that's what I tell myself. "Alright honey, time for a ride," you order as you lift me gruffly from the bed. I'm so afraid that I hardly fight you at all. You fling me out the window and I land hard on my left side on the grass outside my bedroom. So that's how you got in. I lie naked on the grass, so stunned I can't even stand. I am naked on my front lawn, and there is a light shining directly on me. Someone has to see.When you join me. He only kissed me once, but between the booze and his warm hands (he was using both now) I was breathing hard. It just seemed natural when his hands went to my pajama bottoms, and I probably even scootched my hips up when he began to pull them down. I knew I was about to become a grown-up, and it seemed okay. Then his hand went between my legs. It was warm and felt good, and when his fingers started to stroke me there I felt like I was dreaming. I was probably still a little drunk. I'm not sure. They usually dispatched such threats with a simple wrap of a knotted silk cord not unlike a similar cult in India interested more in pure banditry.A week or so before the upcoming ceremonies dispatching the crocodile Queen, Ruth and several other comely maidens favored by Neferusobek, The high priest advised Ruth it would be best for her to become acclimated to the particular deviant processes of the ceremony. She was hesitant to accede to the older man's suggestion because she suspected it was.