” Melissa jumped in with, “Yes Steph, and what did we discuss last week?” Steph stayed silent looking like she was thinking back to last week.... Melissa said still smiling, “Let me help you. You said if I could find someone who is 28 and still spanked I can spank you for being so rude to me. Remember?” Steph swallowed hard, looked at her Mum, then at Beccy and me, then back to her Mum. “I remember that Mum but like I didn’t think, I mean didn’t reckon.” She fell silent. “Well whether you. Everything was either too difficult or not achievable due to the basis of not being able to read. You see my parents still believed school cost money. They wouldn't send us to school because of this. No one ever came from child services to check up on us either, since most in our neighborhood couldn't afford to be born in a hospital, so all of us were born in the house. The youngest Roxie was a near lost. The only reason my mother and her weren't killed is because of the six bottles of beer my. Julie continued.“Susan ALWAYS wants to help! She’s a helpful person! But the woman has PROBLEMS, Helena! Some of the ones you have, too, but more! She has...” Julie caught herself. “It’s nothing to worry about most of the time, but Susan has some very real issues. There’s no telling what could happen to her in a shootout or a brawl, but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be anything good! And what if she gets hurt? They’ll take her to...” Julie stopped and took a deep breath and ended it. “It’s like. After downing a few ales in the port-city of Rustil, you overheard a band of unsavoury pirates mention a so-called Island of Domination. Normally, you'd be inclined to ignore such talk as the addled talk of drunken sailors, but the way they had hushed their voices and spoken of the place in such reverence caught your attention.A few leads later, you had secured passage on a ship traveling through the waters this island was alleged to exist in. After a midnight bribe to the coxswain, you were.