Political partisans were executed frequently.A moderate earthquake hit Southern California. Nothing unusual for the area nor was the quake itself deva...tating by any stretch of the imagination. It was the inability to respond to the damage afterward that had caused wide-spread suffering. In the past when people and resources had been more readily available, a broken water main was a day's repair using extra pipe brought in from some yard where it had been stored for just such an emergency. In. I kept right on with my stroking and she kept coming, moaning and crying out in ecstasy. Gradually, her hips relaxed and she put her hands to my head, grabbing so as to stop my motions. "Oh, God, stop!," she moaned. "If you keep on I'll just die."I pulled my fingers from out of Lennie's pussy and lifted my face away from her wet furrow. Looking up I could she her breathing hard, her breasts quivering from her labored breathing. A red flush was spread across her breasts and abdomen, and it faded. “Get away ... from me.” She said while feebly trying to shove me away with her good hand, a measure of her anger returning.“Let me look,” I said again, this time pushing some power into my voice.I probably should have gone straight for this option and prevented her from swinging at me in the first place, but it was too late for that now. She straightened from her hunched-over position, cradling her right hand the whole while. I reached into her mind and blocked her pain receptors, then took her. ”“So if it broke, we could replace the glass and it would still work?” Janie asked.“Yes,” Bella said. “If the frame itself gets broken, the enchantment will end. It’s basically acting as a containment circle for the magic, like the ones I draw on people.”“So, if the frame cracks it would be like a circle being broken,” Janie nodded in understanding. “What about on my side?”“It’s all the same. I enchanted it from this side, but when I connected them they became one object, metaphysically.