"Yeah, it is difficult. I don't know what I could do, I can't talk to Mark about this. You know how he is even better than I do, he'd want to just jum... right into bed and I don't want to do that yet. I just don't know what to do. I guess I just needed to tell someone. Thanks for being here to talk to me." I smiled.And then she looked down."Well. It looks like I'm not the only one with a bit of a problem," she said, staring at the bulge showing through my open zipper."Uh, Maddie," I said, trying. It took Amanda four more rounds before she felled Alexandra and in that time the ring had become slippery with mostly her blood. She was cheered by a crowd which, although disappointed at the final result, had certainly got their fill of action. If Jeremy had not been so taken up with the excitement of it all and the need to minister to Amanda in the rest breaks, he might have been sick. Rashumba left, happy enough to have seen Amanda get badly hurt even if she had won in the end. After. The blood loss was minimised then I had to find the thousands of portions of partially digested food and move them to the intestinal wall and try to get them through.There was not enough time when I worked this way. Some indeterminate time later I started to surface. The woman, who's child I had worked on, was bathing my face with a damp cloth. I let some of the pain return then turned most of this off for I had to know how well I was healing. It felt bad but I had been worse, but only once.I. The move didn’t escape Katie’s notice. ‘Maybe I’ve gone too far,’ she thought. Taking a closer look at Gloria confirmed the thought. Though the older woman was gamely trying to maintain her haughty demeanor, she was clearly rattled. Her eyes reflected fear similar to what she had just seen in Anthony’s eyes. It startled Katie. She hadn’t realized the depth of her own anger. She certainly hadn’t thought herself capable of evoking this sort of reaction from someone as formidable as Gloria.