Speaking of trains... and rape, I leave two hours early for school every day, so that the train is mostly empty and I’ll only get raped a handful of...times. Once there, the only tricky part is avoiding being seen by the janitor and the vice-principal; everyone else, faculty and student, is female.My classmates hate me, of course. To them, I am a freak slut with a freak slut name. All-girl schools are a cesspool of judgmental bitches, but I’ll take hate over rape any day. There’s probably some. We had been lab partners the previous year,and we still spoke to each other from time to time. She was a shy girl,but kind, and thoughtful. When I came into class that day she looked atme, gasped, and ran out of the room crying. Her pal Claire told me sheliked me. I never even realised.However, the worst part - or the most annoying, at any rate - wasdealing with the know-it-alls. Some people- boys, mostly, but some girlsas well -wanted to tell me all about the feminisation centres. Now,let's be. Are you ready, Lav? Fine, then we'll be off. Ladies, a kiss goodbye and we're gone."Nil and Lavender met with the Kushitic as they formed up ready to leave. There were about a hundred and fifty of them and Nil was pretty sure only half of them were from Xolan's clan. The Kushitic didn't wear uniforms per se but there were subtle differences between the various groups in the formation, mostly the predominant colors displayed. The Kushitic began to move and Nil, Lavender and their four guards. They would cross over that bridge if the time came. He did not quite understand what she wanted to do next. That question, too, he held back.They arrived at the enclave of River Run in the midst of the forest. The hilly terrain underneath the forest gave way to a river that passed through a gash in the bedrock. The hardy folk of River Run harvested wood, minerals, and ore from the surrounding land, sending the bounty by barges down the river through the mountains to the central plain of.