‘What? Have you ever had it?’ I didn’t know what to answer again, regarding the circumstances it happened in. ‘Is it difficult to choose from ...‘yes’ and ‘no’?’ Azem hushed me. ‘I was raped. Please, don’t ask me for details…’ ‘Awwwhhh…,’ he chortled. The atmosphere got as thick as in the school toilet where it’s filled with a cigarette smoke. ‘Anyway, I must go to work. It’s later than it was half an hour ago.’ I stood up and started to get dressed. At work I couldn’t sit in one place. I had. He turned to the Japanese boy, "Juusenkyo then not be accursed ground, yes?"Akane, still holding the boy's gi, said, "Er... yes. I guess." {He's saying the Guardians only want certain kinds of people popping up in their precious springs? Warrior candidates, maybe?}Akane looked down at the muscular body he was in, now. (Is, is that why they gave me... this body?}===When Mr. Chorus {If that IS his name.} went outside with the naked man's clothes, Akane was left to take change out of the clothes. Wolf knew that. She did. That was why she had to hardenher heart, before Red put a knife in it. It was necessary. If Wolf evenfor a moment started to think that she couldn't kill Red, couldn't hurtRed, couldn't stop Red...Mercy was a gift from the strong to the weak. If Red became strong, orWolf became weak, then there would be no more room for it. It was thatsimple.It had to be.***Once again, night fell upon the campsite. As before, Red had askedAnthony to secure extra food. He had apparently. "I don't do women," I said.Steve stopped chewing, looked at me thoughtfully, and said, "I do." Me, too," Bob piped up.Beth actually giggled and said to me, "You're not my type, honey, but we have these two guys here and I think we could probably manage to enjoy ourselves some way, don't you?"The rest of us all masticated thoughtfully."You've already got some books, Bob," I said finally. I could see how the wind was blowing. and Mollie would wait."Let's do it," said Steve, "but first why don't.