" I held out my right hand as if I wanted to shake on the deal. I palmed my pepper spray in my left hand and caught her full in the face. She shrieked...and covered her eyes. I turned and was able to spray Gruesome the same way as he rushed at me. He took a blind swing at me but I had already ducked down and stuck out the Bowie knife in the hope I stabbed something vital. I did. He grunted in pain and collapsed beside me. He was bleeding badly. From the site of the wound I surmised I punctured. I looked on that direction and saw a couple of black guys waiving to me. I offered cheers to them and soon both black guys moved close to me.They introduced themselves as Alex and John; so we start chatting. We started open up and talk about sex and how white women are attracted to black men. So they asked me if I was attracted to black men and I just laughed.So they invited me to go with them back to their place in a hotel nearby. I agreed and we all got out of the bar.Soon we were into the. “Ew,” said Kal as he picked up the brush that Aradelle used earlier on her petals. Before she threw it out of her flower earlier she had dropped it into the nectar that collected in her basin, she apparently wasn’t kidding about how good brushing her petals felt. Throwing it out onto the ground and allowing it to dry for the last few hours had turned it into a mess with all of the soft bristles now glued together with sticky nectar that was now covered with dirt, leaves, and sticks.Resisting. Two men and three women had proceeded west, and the pace had become much slower according to Jane. We kept up our steady pace though of following the hostages and their guards, until Ine held up his hand and indicated something in front of him. Sure enough we saw that the raiders had the three women, stripped naked and tied to trees. The two guards were standing leering at the women and teasing them. There were certain things that you see, that need no understanding of language as to what was.