As they stood after the movie and the lights came up, they moved as a group to the large reception area in the theater where champagne, wine, and cana...és were served by roaming waiters and waitresses. The place was a mob house, but Dave did get to meet Ellen Paige who had played Scarlett’s sister in the play as well as Chris and Elsa.Dave did get confronted by several members of the press. “Sir, I noticed you are Scarlett’s escort tonight. Have you known her a long time?”Dave thought about how. She said ” I know all about your girlfriends I’m pretty sure you must have “fun” with them as well”. I said ” well I don’t know what you mean by fun but yea I did have good times with them ” and I winked at her. She started laughing and I understood she was relaxed. She said ” I’m really scared. I’ve never been with any guy before I don’t know how I’ll do in a relationship and how I can keep him happy”. She said, ” I’ve never gotten physical and the thought of getting physical with a stranger. Life’s mainly luck about who finds the lifeboat.Nobody else floated by, not live ones anyway.She seemed to be in her teens. Thick black braid, eyes almost blue. A lot older in her stare, though. He couldn’t understand a word she said, but fuck it, what difference would it have made?And goddamnit, his Giants were playin’ at the Polo Grounds and it would’ve been on the short wave. Luck goes both ways, he realized; as he’d been on the ladder to the radio room when the torpedo hit. Them fuckin’. Replay repackaged in another way and trying to squirm inthrough a back door.The fuck she would. No. She tamped that memory down, back into its hole.Everything in its place, a place for everything.She pulled the remains of her penis and scrotum from the tentacle dildo.It didn't look like much without any blood in it. She tossed the bloodyremains into the recycle intended for kitchen waste and bloody tampons.She washed the dildo.It curled in her hand, reminding her that it was still alive,.