” I smiled. “This?” I dangled the key before me.“Yes!” she gasped and lunged for it.I pulled it out of her reach but wasn’t fast enough. S...he seized it. Then her eyes widened. She screamed and released it.Lasla had a big smile on her lips. “Only Kurtis can set you free.”“But ... but...” My mother stared at me with these wild eyes. All the rage had vanished. “How am I ever supposed to make love to Sianili again?”“She has my cock, so she doesn’t need yours,” I said, smiling. “But, if you’re good,. And we will show you that there is nothing to fear." Then you are a fool, like that one." The old man rose, and grabbed his walking stick and his bag. "Well, we go. May the ancestors watch you and ward you, and may the yellow come not to this place." He laughed, bitterly, a spectre of his youthful self, and walked away from the fire pit. He turned back one more time. "You should have stayed with the jesusmen, 'Tumbe. Now you will die, and take these poor deluded ones with you. Farewell!"And. She cried out pitifully, and I dismounted and slung my rifle and musket and went after them.They had found a small clearing, started making a fire, forced the girl to doff her dress and one was getting ready to mount her, when I stepped out of the shadows with the shotgun. I watched the soldier's bravery fall quickly while Dawn smiled and came to claim her weapon and pick up her dress."Take off your coats and boots," I told the angry group.I saw them grumbling and nudging each other as they. That’s not exactly good planning,” Betsy said.“I don’t have many options,” Candice said.“You don’t? I find that hard to believe,” Betsy said.Charlie said, “Join the military.”“I’m a high school drop out. The military won’t take me,” Candice said throwing Charlie for a loop.Betsy said, “You can always work in a strip club until you get your high school equivalent. I don’t know how that works here in Canada, but they’ve got to have something.”“That’s an option,” Candice admitted rather surprised.