"Thanks for your compliment. I do enjoy what I do. I will admit I've enjoyed it much more in the last couple of months than I did the first couple of ...months I was doing it."She paused to read the highlighted section."We did see the story in the Chronicle, LaddyBoy," she answered. "It was interesting. And it wasn't a coincidence that it appeared the same time a similar interview appeared in Peaches. We gave that interview almost two months ago and I think it was the catalyst for getting things. "I grinned back. "You, my lady, could never be a passing fling. You'll always be a burning thing."Robbie's grin got bigger at the compliment, then her face went blank. "As long as you're not calling me a rash."I smiled enigmatically. I'd been practicing. It didn't work with Tami, she'd read my mind, but maybe with Robbie..."At least we get a day off."I knew before I said it that it wouldn't help."It's not raining that hard. We could have practiced."I knew Robbie was right. The rain coming down. Well, us guys can’t anyway, god alone knows what kind of x-ray vision or radar women have, that can tell the difference between a rolled up sock and human flesh. ‘Do you paint yourself?’ Elvira asked. ‘No, I have to admit that I’ve never really tried. Well, I buggered about in the art class at school, but I can’t say that I was any good with a paintbrush. Don’t do a bad job with the old roller on the house walls though.’ I grinned back at her. Immediately wishing I hadn’t tried to be funny.. At this stage she feared she was about to be raped where she lay, little did she know the episode she was about to have to endure. He took the pieces of her blouse and tied her securely to the thickest of the bush roots. She stared wide-eyed and unbelieving as she could see no one doing this to her. The fear factor on her face caused Jim to laugh as he jested that she would soon be reporting to the police an entity attacked her and she was powerless to prevent it.He then left her tied there.