The alternating feeling of being a little heavier, and then a little lighter, and the jostling back and forth as the waves pushed on the ship made her... feel like she barely knew how to walk, and like the ship was trying to buck her overboard. Will seemed to have no problems with it, even with the giant mirror in his hands. He walked when it was easy, and leaned or braced with the shudders and drops. He couldn’t see where he was headed, but he still had an easier time than Bella.Captain Vex gave. .. almost magical. We really were one last night, weren’t we, Davey? I mean, I’ve heard people say it, and I’ve read about it, about ‘becoming one’, but we did it, didn’t we?” she asked, but I could tell that it was rhetorical. The answer was already shining in her bright green eyes.“Yeah, we did. I have no doubts and no fears. I know now that you really won’t ever leave me or abandon me. I was secretly afraid of that, Amber. I thought that you would wake up one day and decide that we were a. No college or university in the country would want me.“I’m gonna cry.” Benny theatrically pretended to wipe tears from his eyes. He raised a finger in the air and shouted, “No wait! I just had epiphany. All is not lost. There is one school that will take me. The same dumb ass school that graduated an idiot like you, will accept anyone!”“Get out of my office!” Principal Atkinson was furious.“Say the magic word,” Benny said sweetly.“I said, get out of my office!” Principal Atkinson was starting. He nodded towards the door and two other guards entered with a bucket of red hot coals. Down in the bowels of this hidden away state run prison, they still liked to do things the old fashioned way. It made for dramatic terrifying effect on the women prisoners enslaved and chained up in the dark confines of the dungeons.It was then that she remembered it was the dreaded branding day. The day they marked each prisoner with another ‘P’, for another month spent enslaved in this most warped of.