She dreaded the strokes on the backs of her legs the most. The pain of them on that tender flesh was appalling. At one point the tawse curled around h...r left buttock and the tips of the strap found an entry into the crevice between her buttocks sending a jolt of pain through her as it kissed the bud of her anus. She squeezed her buttocks together tightly and howled at the top of her voice. Through a blur of tears she glanced up to see Debra watching her torment with a comical mixture of. I don't know ... the X-Files or something. How can Mr Herbert afford all..."Jonny stopped talking.They'd advanced close enough to the pit for him to be able to see over the rim and into the cage. Something sat cross-legged on the floor about two metres below them.It wasn't human.It had red skin. Red like blood. Black wings like those of a bat scaled up to human size were folded behind it. A pair of black horns grew out of its temples and curved down behind its pointed ears. Instead of feet it. The computer provided him data he was oblivious to, warning him that his protective shield was down. His throat gaped open from an extremely clean wound, soaking the front of his coveralls. Walter noted the erection, still rampant in death, coated with dried secretions, projecting incongruously from the open fly. He went to the keyboard. Accessing the security log, the computer calmly said, ‘NO DATA AVAILABLE, CHECK DRIVE.’ Looking for expedition data he got the same response. Same with the. “Hi Toby” “Hi Kim, thanks for returning my call, I just wanted to ask a favour of you” Oh, okay, and what might that be I thought. “Well you can ask but until I know what the favour is I can’t give you an answer” “Oh I see, well it’s probably not what you think it is” Toby explained that he wanted to buy Lauren some sexy underwear for St. Valentine’s Day but was too embarrassed to go into a lingerie shop and buy it himself. He wanted me to make the purchase for him. Why didn’t he just order it.