About eighteen months after we were married we had a baby girl. We named her Sara after Sara Carter of the Carter family. We listened to them on the r...dio all the time and I loved her voice. I stopped working and life was pretty good for us. Then the war came. The main effect on our families was that the need for oil was critical and a lot of pressure was applied by the government to discover new oil fields and make them productive as soon as possible. Everyone had to work more hours and I. I would be the one paying for everyone’s rentals, so I went last, but it was interesting to see the process. As each person presented their board or pair of skis to the Pygmaean woman, she used a wireless device to scan each one. The thing was, there were no visible markings like a barcode or something similar in the slightest. When asked about it by Tessa who translated for the rest of us, the woman stated that chips were embedded within, allowing them to tell even identical boards apart,. She dreamt that she was limp, paralysed but not u*********s, like a tiny rag doll in Vorkarm’s massive arms. He threw her over his shoulder and scrambled down the ladder with remarkable agility for a man his size. Once he had alighted, he threw her rudely upon the grass, drew a knife, and cut her black tank, black sports bra, straight-cut jeans and black panties down the middle and tore them off her body in a few swift motions. Looking up, she could see the massive tent in his trousers and feel. "Do you mind giving me a minute? Apparently I'm expected downstairs." Yeah I'm done anyway, Birthday boy!" she said as she pinched his cheek hugged him an went to her room.Donovan found himself surprised for the second time today. Under no circumstances would Rene ever give up the bathroom, his birthday or not. And where was the total meltdown over bursting in on her. Not that he wanted her to freak out if she was cool with it he was. He looked at himself in the mirror. He hadn't changed.