I’ve seen films where battered children cling to the parent who bruises their bodies. I’d watch these movies and think, ‘How peculiar.’ And th...n thoughts of the ice-storm would return. The sanctuary offered by electricity now demands my adoration. I become uncomfortable in moments of even mild silence. I exit the station and make my way into the city. My pen rests comfortably between friendly calluses. I hobble onto an obscure side street where my hollow footsteps die on the slick pavement. A. " You know," Jorgarn said, changing the subject, "I am amazed that your parents treat me so well. After all, I have taken their finest children for my own and left them only the dregs. How is Riset?"Leyota rolled her eyes dramatically."Oh, she will be in fine spirits once word reaches of her of the goings on in the capital," she answered. "That will last for a month or so but then she will be back to her usual miserable, obstinate self. There is a rumor that Saneth Fieth will join us for a. .. Umm..." You want to say goodbye to her first? We can take her to her roomtogether and I'll get this milk in the freezer? I assume there's somethawed bottles in the bag?" Yes please..." she said nervously. I was handed back to Hannah andsaid, "Mama, mama, mama," to her."She does love her mama, doesn't she?" Yes, and it's one of the few things she says." What else?" Num-num when she wants to nurse, baba if she wants a bottle, and theworst of them all... no." No?" I said.She laughed along with. ? This is essential.? It is not a moral issue in the slightest, butrather about the fact that guilt has an annoying tendency to interfere withenjoyment, so it must be banished.? Forit to be banished, there must be that one moment of pure consent, because aboveall else he will be consenting to non-consensual treatment:? Shortly after that moment, the line betweenthe two will become blurrier and blurrier, then sharpen again as consentbecomes only a distant memory from his former life.? At that.