Silence......Stillness in time...***Morning. Daniel woke up suddenly to the sound of shouting downstairs. His eyes shot open like a greyhound out of t...e start gate at the beginning of an intense race. He found himself on the floor of his room. His back was against the hard, cold wall and his legs were folded around the 90 degree angle of the corner of the room. His right arm ached where he had been led on it. He tried to move his numb, tingling right arm out from underneath his stomach but it. I can't tell if it is a mad look or a regular look. Iwalk past him and down the stairs. Dad tells mom that we are going for aride and will be back in a while. Mom says to dad, remember what we talkedabout.We get the car and leave. It is silence for several miles as dad justrandomly drives around. Finally he says to me, how long have you had thesefeelings and urges.I thought about what Luke had said, and how mom had said be honest. I saidI have had them for a while.Dad says how many times have. The thrill. The rush. He loved finding the perfect mark. It wasn't anything perverse or sexual. It was just good, clean fun. The kind that left him with a high that lasted almost all week. Sweet, precious time he savored and languished in as much as he could.He took a deep breath through his nose and let the long sigh out over the top of his beer. Thirty more minutes and he'd give it up for the night. Find some kind of solace in a woman's cunt. He was charming, suave, enticing. It could, would. Althoughmy whole body ached from my wounds, and I was a prisoner of a sadist, his paintoy,I was actually happy, excited, relaxed. As I looked around the dank, dirtydungeon, I noticed a book lying beside me. It was THE book. Immediately, impatiently,I opened the second half. What would it be under? I tried ?B? for ?building? andfound a perfect description of my dream. There followed an interpretation: ?Youhave chosen time as your means of knowledge. You are learning fast. Pain andpleasure are.