--I slip away at this point but I know the two escaped captives are telling Pallus's troops everything that happened to them. Pallus had already been ...rdered to have her troops see to the safety of any one found like this. They also more in likely have either seen the fires from the burning village or heard word of it being destroyed. I return to the fake outpost for the next part of the plan. That was the next successful escape. This one requires me to make my presence known to the captives. Innocence was feeling rather uncomfortable as she served the real ale, bottled beer and mineral water that seemed to be the favoured drinks of the mostly young clientéle. She didn’t feel that way from any sexual advances that were made to her, although rather more blatant comments were made about her breasts by the men and women than usual. She just didn’t know what to say at the aggression that many of the women expressed to her and didn’t like the names she was given, like Hot Pants, Tight. A couple of Dead Heads, actually,going back to somewhere in western New York after seeing“the show” in some suburb of Chicago. I’d talked with themas we boarded the train and came to the conclusion thatshe (Emily – prevet student at Cornell) was the brains ofthis couple while cute Rob (not clear what he does) sortof tags along. What Rob does do, at least right now, is lick, kissand nibble Emily’s neck while his hand is out of sightup her dress. The dress is. " Really?"She nodded.We walked some more."OK," I said."Have you got a condom?"We stopped."A what?" You know, a rubber, a raincoat, birth control, right?"I nodded."Do you have one?'I shook my head and blinked at her."Then we better get one, maybe more than one."I nodded and when we got to the grocery store we went in, wandered around, found a rack of them, and she picked a three-pack that said ultra-thin and handed it to me. "Have you got some money?"I shook my head and she dug a five out of a.