I was on edge, anxious, hot, slightly afraid. My head turned back and forth like a radar dish, searching out where he might be hiding. Suddenly he exp...oded from the bushes behind me, screaming horribly and waving his sword.I screamed in startled surprise, then bolted, racing through the grass. He pounded after me, howling with laughter as he waved the sword around inexpertly in the air. Then he jumped me, tackling me more like a football player than an old barbarian.I gasped as I dropped face. Now it wasn’t just reward - it was survival in its rawest form.A two-thousand mile border fence sucked up a lot of resources, and the politicians had clearly failed to learn from such events as the Mariel Boatlift, refugees crossing the Mediterranean to escape mid-east genocide, and drug lords smuggling people as well as drugs. The resources to patrol many multiple thousands of miles of US coastline were severely reduced in order to staff and fund the two thousand miles of fence.Pre-Swarm, he. ‘You are not a boy you are a woman! What the devil are you doing on my ship!’ I turned and faced him trying to pull my breeches back up to my waist. ‘Please captain do not be angry with me I beg of you. I was captured by pirates and escaped and I must get away form this accursed place to a Christian country. Please help me.’ ‘I suppose that you have no money to pay for your passage?’ said Palozzi. ‘I am afraid not,’ I said despondently. ‘Everything I own was taken from me by those accursed. Most were quite shocked, giggled, and made some rude comments – but did nothing to help me. I heard several of them take pictures. But no one would come inside to help me. Finally, what seemed like forever, a ‘hotel’ service person must have been called because she shyly entered the room and asked me if I was ok….and if I needed any help…. Great question, considering the scene she found!!! She kind of giggled as she removed the tape from the butt plug from my mouth so I could speak. She would.