..! I just put the little one down." "Was he bad?" "Hell no. We played, watched TV, and somewhere in the last twenty minutes of the movie he was sudde...ly asleep. No problem at all." I meant every word. I'd actually had fun. "Tell me about the wedding." I said, ( knowing my wife would ask). "Let me change first. I can barely breathe." Dani said as she ambled back to her room. In all the time of known her i had never been able to pin down Dani's genetic make up. Some blend of ethnicities had. . Charis and Ahlenya, Mike and..." His lips were stiff, his tongue swollen behind his clenched teeth. He wasn't sure that the words were even spoken aloud."Your friends are all here where it is safe. Nothing more is going to happen to them," the voice soothed, and he let the darkness reclaim him.The next time he awoke he felt wonderfully rested. His body was as warm and comfortable as though he'd never know what it was to be cold, but deep within him was still the hard kernel of rage that he'd. I waited for him to wake up and then jammed another glowing needle into his left nut. He passed out again. When I turned back to the hanging whore I could see that she was fading. Her hips twitched uncontrollably but she was unable to life herself of the sedile. She was only taking shallow frantic breaths to show that she could still feel an incredible amount of pain. I took the acetylene torch and lit it in front of her. Slowly, deliberately I burned a small spot on her right inner thigh just. Normally Dale would have been quite focused on the potential dangers of entering a cave at night; but for some reason he didn't hesitate on this occasion.The moonlight had provided quite a bit of light while he was still outside of the cave; however, now that he was entering the cave, Dale was glad he'd brought his flashlight. Once he had slipped passed the boulder and into the mouth of the cave, he spent a few minutes looking around with his flashlight to get some idea of what the space was.