"Shopping." No, we did that yesterday." Daddy, that doesn't mean we cannot shop again today." That's true, but we must have visited every shop in town... there are no more to see." We can go to the same ones."I gave a deep sigh, and she laughed because she knew that she had won.I thought she was joking when she had said she wanted to shop in the same ones as yesterday, she wasn't. We went to all of them again, and some more."No I can't go in another one. I am all shopped out."That made her. Sharing a joke between them. Caroline was happy in Karen’s company.I made my way back downstairs to the living room and joined the girls once again on the settee, sitting next to Caroline. "It’s so hot!!” sighed Karen.“Boiling!” replied Caroline. “It was sweltering at work, the air conditioning has stopped working again.” I added, uninterestingly. One of the girls had put a CD on the player and the music gently drifted through the room.“Sade.” I observed. “The oldies were the best!” laughed. The line was still up, and I was able to shake out the ice crystals and snow from the hanging clothes. I put on the wind pants and jacket, knowing that soon, the heat from my body would begin to provide me with a protective layer of warmth.The wind had died down and it looked like the sun might begin to peak through the clouds. The sky was exhibiting varying shades of gray, with patches of blue attempting to show through. It was definitely a winter sky.The sun was a hazy bright light behind the. ”“What...? I don’t shave down there. Never needed to,” I said, not knowing what the fuck is going on. “I’ve been waiting for you for 200 years,” Dr. Deckard informed me. She slipped her finger through the slit between my legs.“Do you feel anything?” she wanted to know.“Like what? What the fuck is going on here? Why am I here and what do you want from me? You won’t find anything there.”“Do you feel anything?” she repeated her question. “Any pleasure? Any tingling? Anything?”“Just the annoyance.