" Was that the two couples that were following you in a Cessna 185?" Susan asked. "I talked to them yesterday." I'm glad they got the chance to meet y...u," Tiffany said. She briefly told the story of how the two had started with dogs from the pound, and with the help of a retired musher from Warsaw, the only person they could find that had experience mushing, had built them into two strong five-dog teams, and how she and Josh had raced the end of the first Pound Puppies race.Josh picked up the. Her right hand felt blindly around for a new weapon, found a stone in the turf nearby. She could strike him with it, be up and away ... but where?This part of the dream made her want to wake. She knew what was coming next, and it confounded her, even horrified her. But she could not wake.She felt a wild urge rising inside her. Perhaps fuelled by the proximity of death all around, the rising need to live, to feel something of life amidst the reeking miasma of the realm of Thanatos. She heard. I reached into the drawer of the night stand beside thebed and pulled out the gentle cuffs. They are a softsort of hand cuffs held together with Velcro around thewrist and a plastic detachable snap in the middle. Mywife and I used them whenever the feeling for a littleS&M hit us. “Give me your hand,” I told her and sheheld them out and let me attach the cuffs. I stood up.I towered over her. I grabbed her and quickly threw heron the bed.I was beside her in a flash, grabbed her cuffed. “We thought about dredging it, but decided it was kinda nice to have our own little crab bed. A friend of mine who is a bass fisherman, saves the heads for me, and about once a month, I throw a bunch of frozen ones down there, to thaw and keep the crabs interested in sticking around.” There were lots of crabs around the pier in the marshy area, just as Terry had predicted, and by the time the light was fading, they had a dozen legal Jimmies in a bucket Terry had found by scrounging around under.