A real family get together session." I smiled at Mom as I spoke."Come on Honey you are always saying we don't do enough as a family any more." Mom gav...e Dad a cutsie look and pushed her bottom lip out."Alright, I'll think about it just don't keep at me about it." said Dad.We duely got three tickets but inside I felt Dad was going to wash out. Sure enough a few days before the show he threw up some work problems that needed his attention.The concert was not in our town, it seems a football game. I was on my way to clear my name when your people surprised us." You must be the famous Roberta!" said the leader. He sounded greatly impressed and asked if he might have the privilege of looking at her bare back. He knew what he saw there would tell him that she was indeed the famous fugitive."Please take these clothes off me, altogether. I am so terribly ashamed to be dressed. I deserve a long and hard whipping for abandoning my nudity - no matter for what reason. I will get one in any case. To fulfill his promise to her, he needed to untie her legs; he could not do that until she regained, at least some, control of herself. He would have preferred to just nail her feet now and be done with it, while her brain suffered under sensory overload; the pain of her new nailing lost in the prior horror.But he had promised.She knew not how long she screamed, how long she writhed, in agony. In the end, it was not of her will that she regained control of her body; it was sheer exhaustion. Her. A waterfowl fluttered and flew low over me, escaping Sparrow's voice, the length of warm rock felt good on my back. My eyes adjusted to view the scattered clouds above, dusk was falling. I jumped up realizing I'd slept the day away in the park and I felt refreshed and full of energy. A breeze stirred the branches of distant trees on the hill above us.Walking across the boulders to me was Sparrow and the Count's sister. I'd know those green eyes anywhere. Lady Becket was dress in a tight fitting.