When he awoke the room was quiet and dark. The pain returned to his face while he looked the room over. His mother was lying on the bed and nude. He i...mediately felt pity for her and the circumstances she just went through. He felt helpless. He couldn't stop the rapist...he couldn't even take a couple hits without blacking out!!"You ok, ma?" Oh baby, look at your face!! Are you ok?!" I'm fine but we need to call the cops?" No, Daniel. He didn't take anything from us and we both survived. I do. So she took to the street. She was able to make a go of it, for a couple reasons. First the bikers ran crime in our town, so she as long as she was buying her d**gs from them, no pimp could get away with giving her a hard time. She was protected. Her best friend was the daughter of a whore from the Hong Kong and taught her how to sell it, and even went out to turn tricks with her from time to time. And the town had NO law against indecent exposure. Away from the beach, she wore a body. He stroked her lips, parting them to allow his tongue to slip past. Steve stroked the roof of her mouth, her teeth, the side of her tongue. His tongue danced with hers and she pressed as close to him as she could get. Mary felt the need to feel him under her fingertips. Greedily she touched him everywhere she could reach. Her palms stroked his back and shoulders. Her fingertips burrowed into the hair on his chest and stroked his arms. She stroked his face with one finger. Then she wrapped her. A breeze ruffled his hair and carried the smell of rain as the clouds grew leaden overhead.Q'kollan rocked on his heels a short distance back. He let out first a relieved sigh when the Guildmaster finished his circuit, then one of frustration as he started another. "Guildmaster, with all due respect--" This is fascinating work," said Uroddus as if he had not heard his advisor. "I am most impressed by what has been accomplished in such a short time." There is still much work to be done," said.