And…” she grinned. “Are you blushing?”Carly bit her lip. “No! I just… it’s hot in here.”Despite herself, her eyes flicked quickly down...Sam’s body, and she felt a sharp pull in the pit of her stomach at the girl’s lithe form.Sam’s eyes widened. “Did you just check me out?” she laughed.Carly stood, indignant. “So what if I did? You can’t just walk around naked all the time and not expect me to look! Don’t you have any modesty? I mean… I just…”Carly paced back and forth, putting a hand to her. We walked along the seashore at Whitley Bay, muffled up against the wind."Are you religious?" I asked her, out of the blue."Depends what you mean," she said reflectively. "I was brought up a Catholic, you can tell that by the surname, can't you? But I don't go to church any more." Any particular reason, don't you believe any more?" There were just too many things I couldn't swallow. The usual ones, contraception, a male dominated clergy and the pathetic reasons to maintaining it, and their. She’d been born to unaffected privilege.“Doll, you worry too much.”“Kay.” As he folded “The Wall Street Journal.”But, she’d walked away. The stores patiently waiting her arrival, their checkbook in her Rodeo Drive handbag.“Buddy-boy, what’s the matter?”Mister Ed queried his owner as Wilbur Post entered their shared space of stable and office.Ed had heard the sirens and seen the ambulance arrive, then watched yet another extra long vehicle depart hours later in total silence. Something or other. . their man parts. They... !!” Gretchen stopped for a time again. She was breathing very raggedly, and the tears had started again.“They violated us in every way possible. They used spells in their strange language while they took us sometimes more than one at a time. Later they drank some kind of potion. It seemed to revive their vigor, and they all took each of us again several times. It ... it was horrible. I know that I passed out, and am sure that some of the others did also.“When I awoke,.