"It took me a while to get used to it after Jeff explained it to me. It almost gave me the creeps at the beginning, but all of it is so they'll be bet...er able to protect us. They know us, and that knowledge will better enable them to predict what we might do in a hostage or other extreme situation of some kind. Oh, their major objective, really, is to protect Jeff, mainly because he's the only one that Ship will obey, well, Jeff and the ones he designates for command. But without Jeff, no. "Iknow you dirty nasty thoughts little skank." She reached up on in andgrabbed my intestines. I screamed as she pulled them from my festeringcunt.Suddenly there was a barbeque grill. She roasted my guts; my mouthbecame a hole again so she used it to stuff back in my poor roastedguts. The room morphed again and I was back in the room with the torch.This time there was a priest in black rubber frock. His face just beganto melt before I was impaled. He knew my perversion I could see.My mind it. I remember as a kid when Dessie (McNaughton) and I had tried to race across the river and back. Must have been about ten years old I guess, and it had seemed like a hell of a long way back then. Yes, must be more like fifty or sixty yards across. As I mentioned, as an artist, the river is a hard working old so and so. Today he has filled his canvas with images of the river red gums that rely on him for water and sustenance. Not that he ever paints much else, but I guess when you’re that good. The way they kissed each other, how they looked when they did it, it was love and he wanted that with Riley, has always wanted that with Riley for quite some time now.He watched Henry kiss her nose, watched a shy smile appear on her face.“Go easy on him babe, you once felt how he does, ok.” And with that she got out of the car and followed were Riley was heading. Henry watched her till he couldn’t see her anymore and turned his attention back to Jake.“You going to talk about it?” Henry firmly.