Her mouth opened wide in surprise as she suddenly realized how I was using her. "Bastard! Fuck!" she grunted, "make it hurt then." I was happy to gi...e her pain, teasing her clit to the brink of orgasm with my fingers, then pulling away to twist a nipple or slap a breast before she could come. She was shouting at me but her words were lost as more fireworks burst overhead, the big rockets fired from the river. People in the square were looking up at us with astonished, excited faces. Were. Trust me, we need Mary upstairs with the children."Debbie didn't understand my reasoning, but at least I had the air of command that my training had instilled into me.There was still some time. "Debbie, are you feeling tired?" Huh?" Debbie asked. "Um, yeah..." She yawned."Good," I said, entering her mind. "I want you to go to sleep." What... ?"I signaled to June, and then I started talking softly to Debbie, punctuating my words with powerful mental probes into Debbie's mind. I needed her to. So they had stations among the grain fields where a man or, more usually, boy waited with rocks. When a flock of birds or a deer came, he would shout, wave his hands, and throw the rocks. Usually, it frightened the animals away. That was something Thorn could do. After the first time, he took his bow and two arrows with him. When he was stationed near where the grain gave way to the forest, he waited while a herd of deer started to eat. Instead of shouting at them, he took aim at a fawn. His. ..' I turned to face the same huge black brute except there was three other dudes with him just as huge. I mumble 'can't you take a joke, Ha, Ha...' The three of them laughed like some strange horror flick. They shoved me through the exit and down the escalator to the first floor of the parking deck. I knew better than try and run I feared that if I did they would catch me and beat the sh-- out of me. When we reached the bottom floor they herded me to a ford econo van, the side door was.