" "Jesus, we can't..." I put my arms around Ida and kissed her ."It's okay, Ida, it's okay, I know most people aren't as strange as I am. The people I...love and care about, are still the people who are important in my life. I just have an itch..what do you call it...masocism?....that I need to scratch every so often. After the crazy stuff with mom, it's gotten a lot bigger. I don't think Al will let me do this, but really, I mean for real, I would like to do my whore act tied up or chained to. .. flesh which was still slippery from her own, and many others’, fluids.The procession stopped. The crowd following began to spread out around the edge of the crater... hole... mouth... created when the colony ship sank. Soon the entire crowd was loudly chanting the sacred song.Then the signal was given. The torch carried by the leader of the procession was thrown in a high arc into the center of the planet’s mouth to illuminate her way. For a brief moment everything became totally silent.. Sniff ... sniff ... ACH ... ah ... ah ... ah ... sigh." Look at the sun, ya dummy." What's that gonna ... ACHOO! ... oh." Connie?" asked Junior, "This just isn't right ... Company is a machine." Shadup! Coughcoughhackhack. I have a virual ... virus. I feel like shit! SNEEZE!! ... dumbuddy wipe dat up ... Take uds to Inja ... preez? I goin du bed." Why India? Why not China?" Are you crazy? Who wants to brede dat air? Nevis and St. Kids numbers are in the book. Oh Dod I feel icky."And that was. I was using their adult reader program and that's it. I have no idea what I did wrong." Maybe you did wrong where you came from and the police bulletin has finally caught up with you."Rosa might be right for all that Jeremy knew. Manuel was a fiction, but Manuel understood better than Jeremy what he had done, or didn't do. He ate, shit, and picked crops. Vaguely he remembered drinking or fucking ugly, fat women. He remembered being dirty all the time.Rosa's beady eyes and her pinched face gave.