The smell of leather filled her nose. She thought of her favorite handbag. She had once carried it by the strap in her teeth, and left permanent toot...h marks. That was a careless girlish thing to do. It had ruined the bag, and she had thrown it out long ago. She had tried to get another one, but the price had doubled and the new style wasn't as nice. A steady low voiced dialog from voices behind her filtered through the muffling barrier of her hood. This was broken by interludes of easy. “Kathy, I love you, right? You know that, don’t you?”“Yeah...” she dubiously responded.“And, we have been talking about getting married, once we finished school, and got the job thing settled, right?”Again, dubiously, “Yeahh...”“So, we’re done with school, you have your job all hooked up, and once you finish your probationary employment, I can make my own move, right?”She was starting to warm up to the timeline I was reviewing with her. “Yeah, right, I remember.”“So, if we get married now,. Im ready when you are, she said seductively. Really? Will said, catching his breath, Cause Im kinda tired Brook laughed, Truth is, Will, I love having sex as much as you do Then why do you always seem so hard to break? Thats just what girls do, we like to play mind games! Will laughed, as Brook bent down and kissed him on the lips. But now Ive given you the advantage Hows that? I just showed you how to get me horny That is true, Will said, Now I think Im in control of this! Well see, Brook. But she’s seen my paintings. She’s seen the endless iterations on the theme, the shy, lonely girl surrounded by, lost in, the vast landscapes of nature. That’s who I really am, isn’t it? Don’t I reveal the true me through my work? I remind myself that my latest painting, soon to be finished, the one with the cum of four men mixed into its gesso, is a major change from that theme. The woman IS a goddess, boldly and confidently naked, with the natural landscape as her backdrop rather than.