I let out a scream, kicked my legs and thrashed around while he held me down with his hand on the small of my back. I was immediately reduced to tear...s. When I'd settled down a bit a second swat landed which seemed even more intense than the first. This evoked an even more strident scream on my part and more thrashing about. He then administered three rapid-fire swats which left me near hysteria. He then said, "Get ready for the last one." The words were hardly out of his mouth and final. ” Jesus said.“That was because our backpacks had been ripped off of us and the gravel had ripped up both of our backs so bad the entire back area was bleeding on both of us,” Willa added.“I got to Tony. He did not know anything. Not why, where or who anybody was.” Jesus took a drink of water, “Willa came up to us. She walked like a really old person. I thought she was going to fall down several times. I screamed at her to take charge and get us out of there.”“Tony and Jesus looked bad. Tony. A huge lump formed in Allison's throat as her mind raced with all sorts of weird visions about what might happen next. "I think you'll like this idea," Kaija added, which quickly put Allison's mind at ease. She closed her notebook with a sigh and joined Kaija on her bed."So whatcha thinkin'?" Allison asked, popping the tab on her can of Diet Coke."Remember how you said you felt undesirable to men? You didn't like your hair and all that?" Allison nodded. "Well I got to thinking... what would. Bekker eventually arrived, along with a pair of stablehands carrying my chest and a line of other servants bringing in our various packs, bags and other accoutrements we left at the inn. Immediately, he took a look around, taking everything and began delivering orders to the lord paramount’s own staff like he had been our butler for years instead of a couple days. He found everything unacceptable- the fact that we hadn’t been offered baths to wash off the soot, the fact that we we hadn’t been.