The burning tip felt as if it were scorching her nerve endings directly while it curled across her tender skin in a swirling, intricate dance.Her mind...span dizzily as the pain failed to subside, but the tip of the artist's pen only continued onward, curling from the back of her neck to the throat, where she felt with frightening permanence the symbol of the Palace being branded into her, letter by letter.Kathryn wasn't entirely sure how long had passed, but at some point the burning tip. "This school has like four hundred people, doesn't it?" It does," the women nodded. But up until last year this was an all-girls school. We've only opened it up recently to boys, but there's still that stigma," the woman says."So wait..." you say, your mind moving a mile a minute. "There's, like, forty girls for every guy?" Nineteen, honey," the receptionist says. "I see why your parents decided to send you here." Yeah," you nod, scratching your head as you come to terms with this fact.All of a. In the office, Luci is much quieter and conservative than me. Here at the party she was literally and figuratively letting her long brunette hair down. She wore a silver sequin dress that accentuated her beautiful, curvy figure. If there were a best-dressed award, she would have no doubt won it. Several other women and guys joined us. I lost Luci for a couple of songs, but then she reappeared and danced even more seductively with me. Just then she grabbed my face and started making out with me.. "Color?s getting better," I announce to Kristi.She is silent, there?s probably nothing to say to that, but I hopeshe?s encouraged.Within 3 minutes of Neopuff ventilation the baby?s pre ductal oxygensaturation is in target range for minutes post partum, meaning theoxygen levels in her blood were where they should be.It starts to wiggle and let?s out a weak but audible cry."There you go," I announce. Realizing my narrative had prematurelystopped a short time earlier."Third stage of labour.