Cheryl looked young. She was small all over ... she couldn’t have been more than five feet tall and probably weighed less than a hundred pounds. “...i Michael,” Beth said as she gave me a hug. “This is my partner, my lover, and my sex slave, Cheryl.” Cheryl put her hand out for me to shake. That’s when I noticed a collar around her neck.“Hi, Cheryl - how are you?”“I’m good thank you, sir.”“You don’t have to call me sir, Michael would be ok,” I replied, smiling.“I’m sorry sir, but I have to. Curtis said, “We have a good thing going, we need to keep it going, were all good friends that happen to like having fun with our clothes off with one another.”Maggi pushed Curtis back on the couch and jumped on top of him and kissed him passionately and said, “You’re so CUTE!” Than Nat kissed him and said, “Kiss me again, I love that tongue of yours.”Lorraine said, “We both want to thank you, ever since the other night, Curtis and I have been screwing like horny teenagers.”I stepped up before. Behind Tony, he saw something black and shaggy. Baker stopped, took aim, and fired. The black furry animal went limp falling head over heels. The two kept running close together. Mary tripped. She never got a chance to do more than start to rise before another of the beasts was on her. Her scream was higher pitched until it was cut off abruptly. Baker fired again and killed the beast over her body. Tony had stopped and went back. Baker realized he was after the pistol. He bent and picked it up. She looked up. Two huge birds of prey were flying overhead. The larger of the two seemed to be chasing the smaller one.The strangeness of their shapes caused her to look closer. 'They have legs! They must be angels! I've been forgiven and they've been sent to search me out and bring me home!'With a cry of joy, Katrina leaped from the back of the rumbling wagon and ran toward them as they flew away, crying out to them in the language of the gods."Wait! I'm here! Take me with you!" she cried out.