Her sweet, sexy voice crackled in my ear, "I'm on the expressway. Traffic is terrible so I may be a few minutes late. I love you."I got the rest of my...luggage and went out to the curb to wait. It wasn't too long before I saw the familiar car approaching. She pulled up to the curb next to me and popped the trunk. I tossed my bags in the trunk and sank down into the passenger seat. She leaned over and gave me a quick kiss, "How are you doing. babe?" "I'm doing OK. It's good to be home." Just. She wore only an opened shirt. ‘Why hi, Jim,’ she said in mock surprise. ‘Been busy already, I see.’ She glanced meaningfully at my shorts. ‘We’ve got a new film I’d like you to see, Jim. When you have a moment, stop by the office.’ ‘How about now?’ I said. I assumed it would be the same film Carmine had watched minutes earlier. ‘Fine.’ She led the way to the office. As shaken as I was, I still admired the way her naked ass cheeks undulated as she walked in front of me. Whatever else she. “If that had been a full thirteen in that time, it would have been great. We need to cut it to under seven minutes a mile to be competitive. Six minutes to be on the podium. How much time do we have before a half?”“You’re running it, too,” I said. “Labor Day in Noblesville. The high school competition will be at the same time as everyone else.”“Three and a half weeks. Yeah. We can do this.”I wasn’t quite sure what it was she thought we could do but I agreed. Sure, we can do this.Practice that. There were many kinds of dismemberment and disembowelling inflicted prior to the inevitable death, but this was itself often preceded by days or weeks of cruel public punishment in which ordinary people were invited to participate by throwing stones or cutting off chunks of flesh or other such acts.’ ‘Did you have to participate?’ wondered Sheila with genuine horror. ‘I was a child,’ said Petal. ‘I didn’t know any different. But if I didn’t, I’d have been purged much sooner than I was.’ ‘So.