She released me long enough for a few panted breaths before clamping me against her again. I heard her giggling above me. She lifted herself up, letti...g my head drop back. I was still panting for breath when she slid a hand behind my head and lifted it back to her cleavage. Her sweatshirt had gone. I was now pressed against her flimsy T-shirt. I could feel the outline of her bra as my face was smothered. My arms flapped uselessly deep in the folds of the sleeping bag as Heather deprived me of. .. Kenshin... If you sacrifice yourself now, a girl who came all the way from Tokyo just to see you will be very unhappy. (Shishio, screaming and foaming at the mouth, raises his sword for the final blow.)Let's go home to Tokyo together, okay? Let's go home... (Kenshin wrests himself upright to meet Shishio's charge.)Kenshin: I can't die! There's no reason for me to die here! There's still someone waiting for me to come back! Nothing... nothing is stronger than the will to live!Shishio: No.. We thought we might have a few more days.”To say I was stunned is to use the word in the context with what they do to cows at the slaughterhouse.“But, but, but ... Wh-wh-wh-... ?”“Just take it easy, Grandpa. We need to combine your thoughts and intellect with ours. We have learned that our gestalt is far superior to the abilities of any single individual in the group. Adding your mind to it is the reason that we are here.”“You mean... ?”“Yes. I mean that were weren’t on our way to somewhere. I really did not want them to win by default. I didn't want to just hand myself over to them.The compromise was that I would stay outside the wire. I would be the perimeter guard. If there was trouble, I would keep the exit open till they returned or I died. The last was my order to myself. No matter what I did to ease it, the close to a mile hike from the abandoned service station to the almost abandoned chemical plant was pure hell on my still hurting leg.I was out of breath and my leg ached.