I wanted her toembrace this.I slid the scissors higher up as I pulled away from herlips, her hair once again hiding her angry andfrightened eyes. R...0;You’re at another threshold, hon. Andthis is a big one. I can help you to some degree – infact, you may say that I’m dragging you along. But thisthreshold you have to cross on your own.” The front of her sweater fell away revealing the blacklacy bra holding her breasts. A few snips along herarms up to her bound elbows. I was glad that I hadn’t ignored my phone or let Charlotte talk me out of coming. The situation was clearly dangerous. After a few more blocks of towering warehouses, vacant lots, and nondescript factories, I came to the intersection Maddie had given me. At first, I couldn’t see her, but when I turned, my headlights caught a flash of red hair. She was sitting, head on her knees, on the curb outside a graffitied brick building with rusty garage doors. As I pulled up, she raised her head and gave. I kept my hand in a tight fist. The cut in my palm had stopped running but the one across my index and middle finger was still oozing. I kept my hand off the edge of the bed as I laid down. “It had to be you, didn’t it?”I closed my eyes, thinking of Mel and Ellie. Those girls with their Brooklyn accents and perky tits. I imagined their thick strawberry blond hair and their visible excitement to see me. It didn’t help. I fucking hated masturbating with my left hand. I kicked off my pants as I. Soon I am at the periphery of the wood, which has enlarged in my imagination to become a forest, vast and implacable, like the great vaulted tree-realm of ancient England. Yet I have reached the end of it and yearn to go on.Dimly, I realise I do not recognise the field below. It stretches down towards a hollow of greater darkness that seems to hold a light, although it might be my fevered imagination. I stand there, my body glowing in its skimpy garments, hot with everything.Where is Mutant.