" I'd rather be dead!" she hissed."Might happen anyway," Banar shrugged. "But if you're going to do it you'd better do it quick, before someone binds ...ou, 'cause if they do, you won't be able to off yourself unless they say it's okay. Not likely if they go to the trouble of binding you." Then he looked over at her with a frown, "But you ain't going to do it on my watch, or Rolf's either." I cannot live as a slave," she whispered."That ain't the question," Banar said, again with a shrug. "You're. Just watch those deep spots.”Sherie turned and walked the short distance to the edge of the creek then looked back at me. She twirled her finger as if to say turn around. I smirked and turned my back. I heard the zip of her shorts and the glide as she pushed them down her young legs. A curse under her breath.”What's wrong?” I called over my shoulder.”I tore my shirt,” she replied. I heard the splash of water as she waded into the creek. The fire cast an auburn glow on the trees at the edge of. K i said , what are you telling me ? she's my lover said zoe , i just wanted you to know before we took things any further , i simply said it's not a problem your private life is your own affair,do you want to talk about it i asked , can we have a drink asked zoe so yes we had a drink and she opened up a little, she wenton the say that her and julie were lovers, but for professional reasons it was easier to tell people they where mother & daughter purely on the grounds of their age difference ,. In fact, everything was spinning and twisting. Barton’s smirking face was distorted. Desperately, as looked at my glass in realisation, it slipped from hand, and fell. I too, was falling, falling, unable to keep myself from the blackness that opened up to swallow me.Slowly, very slowly, I found myself wishing the pounding noise would stop. I opened my eyes to a dark night, with a few stars above me. How was I out here? Out where? The dawning was painful.My thin blue dress hardly protected me.