“The militaries of The Just Alliance are melding and redeploying throughout the alliance, civil defense and emergency response corps are forming eve...ywhere, programs for the assistance of the poor and needy are suddenly so over-financed that they’re having to hire extra accountants just to keep track of it all, thousands are swearing binding oaths to justice with every second that passes, laws are being re-written by every government, prisoners are being sworn and prisons closed or renovated. ”“How is Arma?”“Her stress level is expectedly high: like your own.”“Yeah,” Rebecca grumbled, back to pacing again. She yelped in surprise as Young-Rebecca tumbled backwards through the gate and crashed to the floor. “Crap,” she muttered, hurrying over. Young-Rebecca moaned and rubbed the back of her head. “Are you all okay?” she asked.Trembling, Young-Rebecca cracked an eyelid. “What happened to me? I don’t feel so good. Who are you?”“I’m ... Leda,” she answered cautiously. “Can you sit up,. Giving me a delicious grin, she walked inside her house – and I watched her the entire way. I noticed my phone said 1:47. I couldn’t believe that Victoria and I had just made love for the better part of forty minutes. It had only felt like ten minutes. I thought to myself that, 'I guess that’s where the expression "time flies when you are having fun" originates.'A few moments later, she exited with two glasses of water, handed me one, and sat on the edge of the lounger next to me. I thanked her. From the window inAnn's room we could see the back steps, and into the back yard. A few momentslater we saw grandma leave through the back door and briskly walk over towardher house. "She's going to get the strap" Ann whispered to me as she peeked out thewindow at our grandmother. At that time I didn't know what Ann already knew from experience, which wasthat my grandmother kept a short, cut-off piece of an old leather belt hangingfrom a nail on the wall inside her small enclosed back porch..