It was past 7:30 when Cindy gave a whimpering sound.Jim grimaced. "I see it too. Just stay in the car when I slow down. I'm going to drive right acros... the median and park alongside." In less than a minute Jim pulled up along Cindy's car in the eastbound breakdown lane. The battery icons on his display cycled back to blue. "Another hundred and ten miles," Jim said. "Exactly the same as before." Uh huh," muttered Cindy. "I'll go check my Globalstar system again. Who knows? Maybe I can get a. Betty removed the pipe from my mouth and Jack the one from my arse. I drew a lung full of air and screamed, only stopping to draw more air and to keep screaming. At some point this died down and I started to swear at them. They just looked on and smiled. Eventually Betty said it is done now so I was wasting my time and energy shouting and screaming and they would put a gag into my mouth if I don’t stop the foul language. At this I stopped dumb founded at what she had said. That’s better. “At least an Oni child, I don’t know how large humans grow.”“I’m almost five foot six!”“Is that supposed to be impressive?”“Maybe not to you,” he grumbled.“You’re also high-born, isn’t that right?” the Oni asked as she pushed a branch out of her way with a loud creak.“What of it?”“Aren’t the high-born supposed to stay inside their fancy castles and never interact with anyone who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in their mouth?”“Perhaps the upper classes,” he said with a shrug, “but not me. My. ***When she got out, I gestured for her to grab a seat. "I think we need totalk for a second." She gave me an amused look. "Just for a *second*?" I smiled back. Then took a deep breath. "This is... definitely an unusualsituation, no?" "To say the least." "Listen, Coll, this whole thing really plays a major goof on, well..." Ireached for a term. "Body taboos, I guess. I mean, you've just seen...and, hell, used... a rather private part of my anatomy. And if I take ashower, or you do... which.