He sat in a dazed drunken stupor in the bar in Mars City. Unaware atfirst of the others around him until the young girl across from himfinally got his...attention. "Hi, my name is Clarice, Clarice Void," shesaid as if it should ring some kind of bell.In truth all he could remember was that his mother Anna had often talkedabout knowing someone in the underground named Void. He just stared ather blankly, waiting.Finally she leaned across the table and whispered into her ear. "If youwant to avenge. .." he can't get a word in. "Look, this is my job, it's what I do. It's how I pay for the lives we lead. It's how the kids go to camp and we go on vacation and it hasn't changed in the fifteen years we've been together so please, just leave it alone." He listens to his wife's rambling speech and looks around the room."It's worse than ever. The work came in later than usual and I don't see how I'll ever get it all finished." He knows this to be untrue. He always gets it done. Always on time,. Every night his mind drifted back to the last time he'd seen Sera, standing backstage, looking half dead. The way he'd acted back then, the way he'd shaken as he'd taken Thomas. The blond boy hated to think it, but it had felt like the end of something.He need not have worried as much as he did. Thomas was walking out of his second history exam when he heard a voice murmur his name from somewhere back behind him. Sera was standing with his back to the brick wall wearing an open white shirt and. Afterwards I would betold to pour my sperm out of the rubber into my palm and lick it up'like a good girl."I was becoming more and more the girl in the bedroom. I had to serveand satisfy another's pleasure before even thinking of my own, I wasincessantly made to give head, I virtually ceased to penetrate, andwhen my cock was allowed into her pussy I was manipulated into positionlike a dildo and never allowed to cum inside her -- I was the one whowas fucked, who was used and then set aside. I.