My need was so tender; I even shed a few tears as she bound me. She looked at me quizzically, almost asking why, but I avoided her eyes, and let the t...ghtness of the cuffs and the stretching of my arm muscles lift me towards the zone I yearned for. I was tied up, naked, but not yet whipped, and she was prowling around me when the reckoning came."What's this?" She demanded touching the bruises and several pin-prick marks on the inside of right arm."I've been so bad ... Oh god ... I've never been. "How could I do otherwise? You've been so nice to me here. I would have hated seeing you torn up like those soldiers," Gruthsorik replied."Oh God, the soldiers!" Claire said. "If any of them survived they need medical attention immediately. I need to go help them!" She stood up and started towards the Containment wing, then stopped short. She had just realized something. She turned back to Gruthsorik. "You have to leave now, don't you," she said, crestfallen. Now that he was out of the cell,. But I'm changing a few things for this show." "Changing things? Are you sure you're George? You never like to change things. Everything we do is basically a vaudeville act. Even your old songs." "No, that's Abbot and Costello's bit. Our vaudeville act is sandwiched around a situation comedy." "Abbot and Costello sing stale vaudeville songs?" "That's more like the Gracey I want to show the audience. Now, tell me about your brother." "My brother? I'm glad you asked about him. George, he lost. I'm amazed you're keeping it togetherat all."Kenny felt his eyes stinging and blinked back tears. "I - " But thereseemed to be something in his throat and he looked away, ashamed."Sheeit, man!" And suddenly, insanely, Willy was hugging him. Kennyfound himself clutching the man's wiry body instinctively, heard thegreat shuddering sobs he was producing. "It's okay, just let it out,"Willy was whispering.Such a display of emotion was not really manly, and every instinctKenny had resisted it. But he.