Michael could remember what he'd seen of the life of the peasants.At harvest time, the castle folk helped harvest and glean the lord's lands. There wa... a village through either gate, and the castle children gleaned together, one day in the upstream fields and the next day in the downstream ones. They met the village children, much more numerous than they, that way, Between castle and village, and between the villages of St. Anne's and Montant, there was some rivalry; but there was also a fair. ”She hit the word home sort of hard.“So you never felt like your dad’s house was home?”“No. That place was a house, and grandma’s place too, the only thing that kept me sane was the girls. Granny was okay, but she was really old and deteriorating quickly.”“Well, what I wanted to talk to you about, Rachel was you being in this house. I want you to stay here.”“How long can I stay?”“You misunderstand me, Rachel. As far as I’m concerned, this is your house, your home, I’m a guest here. You stay as. For almost thirty years, that was it. So, I started carrying the boxes of porn up the stairs, to the back of the house, and placed them in HER room. She explained that she went through it all, and kept the things that she liked. She had never seen such things or even thought she would like it, but she does now. Once we got all of the boxes in her room, we decided to take a break for a moment. Apparently she had been prescribed some anti-depression meds from her doctor, and it had opened a new. Knowing my sister, I was certain she was on her knees willingly and she really gave the impression she knew exactly what she was doing and had matters well in hand, or rather, well in mouth.Thinking more of the family honor rather than my sister's completely ruined reputation, I started kicking wannabe gangster ass but eventually wound up in the prone position in the gutter. She pushed me down the street to our door telling me the bad things she would do to me if I said a word about her.