...I want to hurt you. Do you want me to hurt you?”I sniff and in a very soft voice, “Yes. Please hurt me.”Her breasts push into me, “And why ...do you want to be hurt?”“I deserve it.”“Yes, you do.”I lick my lips, “I need it.”I feel her fingers caress my cheek, “I know you do, of course you do.”My throat tightens. I need to know and I am so afraid to ask. I bite my lip again. Her lips press into my cheek and I think I whimpered “oh god”.I swallow, but it doesn't come out. I need t know, but I just. So have faith, Martians, your vices will be arriving soon."She paused again, allowing what she assumed was another planetwide cheer to die down. She then turned her face serious."This brings us to a subject that seems unrelated but that really is not. It is the subject of welfare reform. For dozens of generations we have had a system in place in which the needy, the jobless, the infirm among us have been supported by the government so that they may continue to be housed and fed. This is a. ?Yet so far from the road.??Not near so beautiful as you, my Lady,? he said. I decided to flirt back a little with this gorgeous man.?You compare me to a untended field of common sunflowers? You must think me drab indeed,? I said.?Nay, you are lovely, my Lady,? he said. ?I am not so versed in refined speech as my lady’s courtiers. I am but a simple soldier.??Yet you are almost as adroit with thy tongue as with thy sword, it seems,? I said, laughing.?Do not jest with me, Lady,? he said, all in. " Sure, Jack. That's fine with me. I won't do anything to fuck up your marriage. There's just too many broads around for me to be chasing after Shelly. Not that she's unattractive or nothing like that. Understand?" Right. Lemme tell ya somethin, ' " he said slurring his words a little. This wedding is gonna set me up for life." You telling me Shelly's rich?" No, no, nothing like that. My old man." What about him?" He's gonna give me ten or fifteen grand to buy a business." Hell! That's great.