Alright, just let me say goodbye?"He nodded, and stepped back, and I gave my mother a kiss and said,"Goodbye, mom."She relaxed, and I knew she was rea...y to go, and so I stepped away soDeath could do his job. I said to him, "You said her soul would beweighed. You mean you judge whether she goes to heaven or not?"Death reached into my mother's body and pulled out a twinkling globe,and then pulled out a set of scales."I do not judge, the scales say where she goes, Heaven, it appears." Henodded. This is a milestone for us.”Alice posed, “Would you like us to put you in touch with a swingers’ group we know and sometimes participate in? Nice people; about the same socio-economic level.”Lloyd said to Jean, “What do you think?”Jean nodded, “Yes. We could at least explore what it might be like with someone.”Alice said, “I’ll get the information for you and give it to you when we come back.”Matt stood and walked to one of the tripods. He lifted the camera off of it. “Oh, good. I think we got. .. as it were. Yes, I know it made us seem a bit Rambo-ish, but 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst' was pretty much a dominant character trait of mine now. I kind of hoped civilisation wouldn't collapse around me, but I was damned if I wouldn't go down fighting if it did, hence my almost religious attempts at self-sufficiency. Sam and I were kindred souls in this and I had to admire what he told me of his family and their attempts to live with his lifestyle too.As ever I didn't spot Sam. A masked face shoved itself inside the door and she froze, pretending to still be asleep. The man, who she could make out between her mostly-closed eyes to be Dominic, stepped inside. He crossed the room towards her and angrily balled her hair in his fist and pulled her up onto her knees. He smacked her hard multiple times across the face. “Wake the fuck up, Rich Bitch!” Her eyes fluttered open and she whimpered out in pain. She was horrified that Chad had told him about her blurting out.