"What?" he asked."Fine," she said. She stood up and kicked off her shoes. She unclasped and then peeled off her black dress pants, revealing the white... thong she was wearing under them."There," she said, before getting back on her knees."Oh yeah," he said as she wrapped her lips around his dick again. She reached around and grabbed his ass with both hands. She forced herself further and further down his dick until only a half an inch was left between her lips and its base. She held there for a. 'Nothing they did could ever hurt me. I thought of us loving each other, kissing and you being inside me, ' she said kissing away his tears of hurt. 'Be with me, ' she softly whispered to him.'Anything for you, ' he replied pulling from her and he reached to a tall shelf and began pulling down pillows. 'Let's lay these out on the floor, ' he smiled to her as they began to make a bed on the floor. Caleb looked to the makeshift bed and smiled. 'Well it's better than being on the floor, ' he said. She felt rather than saw them attach hooks to the ropes around her ankles, then she heard the crank turning and felt her body lifted into the air. She swung there upside down for several seconds, legs wide apart, arms hanging limp in front of her. She saw them walking around the room, circling her, all in deathly silence. The first blow was a long leather whip. It wrapped around her belly and back, raising a thick, red welt. She didn't scream, just sucked in her breath hard and prayed for more.. Twenty One Years later in a high tech survivor's compound in northern Australia the answer was found: Gaia, the spirit of the living Earth, had awoken in terrible pain from all the harm we were doing her, and with the glacially slow thought process that typifies a sapient PLANET decided the best way to deal with our bullshit was to revoke all her blessings from us: we could neither sire nor bear children, we could not make the earth bring forth it's bounty, and all the animals which had not.