I need time..." So, I'm to take you on as an employee and leave you in the house in return for some kind of personal services contract — until I sel... the house..." I muttered."Yes." Rachel nodded. "I like that. Personal services." Well, maid work. Cooking, cleaning, external cleaning at other sites..." I backpedalled. Dammit! How did she figure out that I had a gooey center? When did I fuck up?"You don't have to set limits..." she said softly."I probably should..." I don't want you to," Rachel. The two new men in the room looked at each other and shrugged theirshoulders as if to say, 'What the hell?' I felt helpless. I wanted toget up and run away, but I'd have to run the gauntlet of otherguests. I couldn't face that. How could I stop these men? I couldn'tscream rape. After all, I'd started this whole thing. Besides, if Idid scream for help, everyone at the party would converge in aheartbeat and see me covered with sperm.I was about to resign myself to my fate when I heard. Local Time : Valley of the Rainbows, HawaiiLelanie Makuakanee' gathered new materials in preparation for her daytime rest. It had been a fruitful night, as she and her fellow menehunee' had accomplished much. It seemed that lately resistance to getting tasks accomplished was becoming less and less.'It's as if the flow of manna were edging closer to the 'day time' world, ' she mused, 'how strange this is. I wonder if Lono will be returning soon. That would be nice, it's been so long since we. But if you turn your ear toward the valley, dimming in your mind the sounds of the boy, you’d hear the most important sound of all, the sound of an alarm. At this point it is safe to assume the residents of the nearby mountain town (from which the alarms toll) are in full panic. Mothers are clutching their crying children, men are grappling for supplies, and elderly couples lock hands and kneel by their marriage bed in prayer, deciding it best to die together. There is no chance of survival,.