So, after we’d graduated, it made sense to rent a place together since we were both going to be working in Chicago. We found an okay house in a so-s... part of town and that was that. But all good things must come to an end and this appeared to be it. Today he was moving out. He and the alluring Michelle (his words not mine, I don’t care much for the outdoorsy look) had decided the time had come to cohabitate. And the rock she wore on her left hand proved they were playing for keeps. It was true. He could understand me because he was fluent in Latin--as I have become since coming here--as well as Frankish. He conveyed my apologies to everyone concerned when I warned that I had to clean out the wound again and knew it would hurt.Clean cloth and boiling water arrived. Before giving her two shots of rum, I dropped my needles and tweezers into the boiling water as I lifted the loose flap of skin on her ankle and scrubbed away any pus and dirt I could find. Satisfied, I cut off the loose. One evening I was in the dark room when Kalena knocked for coffee time. I taught here never to just open the door! When I emerged from the darkness into the bright light of the studio, I was stunned by a vision of Kalena sat up on a desk, back toward me, he feet in a chair. She was fanning herself with a sheaf of paper. Caught in the sunbeams streaming through the skylights, her housecoat, now unbuttoned to her waist, did nothing to conceal her ample form, naked. Only knickers.I just stood and. After quickly erecting a scaffold-like structure in the center, they suspended my sister and me naked and made us watch while, one after the other, they took our schoolmates out to the square, tortured, raped, and ultimately killed them all. With the bodies still lying all over the square and with all the villagers still being made to watch, they tied us face to face and began to beat us with bull whips."At the same time they were heating a branding iron red hot to brand us in different spots.