As the contractions progressed, she wastaken to surgical theater set up as a makeshift delivery room. 12 hourslater, a sore and tired Fletcher heard h...r baby cry for the first time.She seemed to feel a response to that sound in her chest."She's got a healthy set of lungs," the Doctor told her as he cleanedthe baby up and cut the cord. He wrapped the little girl in a blanketand handed her to Ariadne. "Have you thought of a name for her yet?" Her name is Phaedra," Fletcher said. Instinct and. "I unlocked the door, and since I wouldn't need it again I handed the key to Gerri. I hadn't meant for it to be symbolic, but she frowned as she took it."Sorry," I said."It's alright. I'm just being silly." No."I led her into the bar area to grab a soda for the road. I meant to retrieve my backpack from the bedroom and come back out. But she followed me and sat on the edge of the bed with one leg folded under her, the other beginning to swing restlessly.I picked up the backpack and stood. "I'd like to try them," Maryann said so quietly that she barely heard herself."Pardon?" the lady in shorts asked. She thought she'd heard but it was so unexpected that she needed confirmation.Maryann could scarcely believe she'd said it out loud. She'd been thinking it ever since she'd runaway the day before. Fear and avoidance of sin had propelled her then; just now she'd had a slip but she could take it back, pretend she hadn't said it, no harm would be done. She looked her host in the face. She walked over to him, but when she would have sat next to him he stopped her making her stand in front of him."Lift up your skirt so I can see your pretty little knickers." He commanded.Debbie hesitated for a split second then lifted her skirt with a malicious little smile.His eyes shot up to hers his rage purpling his face again. "Where are your knickers?" Jenkins tore them off me." She told him innocently.He shoved his hand in her crotch to feel the sticky dampness there. "You're filthy!".