Wild waves of unfamiliar feelings and emotions were building and drawing my body and its desires into uncharted waters. My first instinct upon seeing ...he smarting marks on my bottom were that I ought to be feeling ashamed. I began to realize, however, that I had lived all of my life to that point, in the overbearing shadow of an unseen mistress called guilt, and that she was now endeavoring to call me to obedience once more. She was all I had ever known. But where, I began to ask myself, had my. I didnt say anything, just laid there while that rotten fucker molested me. The moment I waited for came. He pulled me up and forced me down over the bed. He started yanking at my shorts and I didnt make it too easy. When he made the mistake of leaning his head to far forward I pushed back with with my hands and flung my head back. The back of my head hit him right on the nose. He screamed and I ducked and twisted. Good thing I did because he tried to punch me, but he missed. Turned sideways. I followed him into our bedroom. He put the bag down and came over to where I was standing. ‘You get changed, I’ll be back in a minute.’ He pulled me close and kissed me on the lips. I didn’t move. Then he was gone, out of the room. I wearily got undressed and brushed my teeth. In a few minutes, I crawled under the blanket and closed my eyes. I was just about asleep when I felt Dylan get in on the other side of the bed. He immediately slid over and snuggled up against me. I felt his hand reach. “And we got married. Whitefella married and blackfella married. Then we went to the Uni. But when Sam’s father, Patrick Carpet Python, told us of Josiah and his plans, we spoke to our grandfathers and then we drove here. It took us almost two weeks. But we are here. Now, let me tell you a story of my people.”In the first days, Belah, the warrior Sun Woman, whose campfire was the only light, liked the taste of Aboriginal flesh. She would kill, roast, and eat anyone she caught. So all the people.