‘There was no salve. It’s probably just the nanobots cleaning things up.’ Goddess! She should not have said that! Maybe he wouldn’t notice. M...ybe he would not understand. But he was upon her immediately. ‘Nanobots!’ he snarled. ‘What nanobots?’ She said nothing. He sat down on the bed next to her. ‘You will tell me this thing,’ he said, quite mildly, ‘eventually. Do you understand?’ What’s the use, she thought. ‘This knowledge,’ she said, ‘is dangerous.’ ‘So?’ he snorted. ‘I have tempted death. Which she was. I suppose Helen was quite attractive and looked good for her age. She was quite fashionable, looked after herself, and had long blonde hair and decent looking figure, although she was probably a bit too thin if anything. It must have been the combination of alcohol and weed that turned the conversation sexual, and she was quizzing me about why I didn't have a serious girlfriend and wasn't I fed up of 'playing the field'. "Doesn't a nice looking young man like you want to settle. “So Jer is it?” Sarah asked.“Yeah, that’s what everyone calls him.”“What’s he up to?”“Going to see if he can spring me?”“We can only hope, I know you are ready to get out of here, oh and by the way here you go.” She added handing Marie the Jell-O.“Yay, Jell-O.” Marie all but yelled. “Do you have any idea how good this taste right now, I wasn’t joking when I said it’s the only thing basically that I can keep down.”“Well at least you are able to keep it down.”Marie laughed but stopped and hid the. Over the next two days we got beat up pretty bad. Zeke had a black eye and a bloody nose where the stallion rared up on him, slamming his head backwards into his face. I had a scraped arm and a bruise the size of Dallas on my back, but we topped them, working with them every day for a week before going on. Zeke took an old cinch ring and put a brand on them, BZW, our initials.Three weeks before we got into gold country we stopped at a pretty fair sized town. Picking the best looking livery barn.