She tries to say something from around her gagged mouth, but no words come out. I placate her mental discomfort with the motion of my hips, and she so...on relaxes, and falls back under my overbearing control; whimpering softly as she lurches in the prison of her self-designed rape. “What a pretty picture that is,” Laurie laughs, “I think I’ll capture it. Say ‘cheese,’ Audrie.” Laurie snaps a picture of the lust-drunk woman, and Audrie is too lost in her perverse fugue state to react. Laure smiles. ”“Tony! You never noticed me.”“Did too! Promise.”“Oh, come on, you two. I want to know what happened. Did you do anything? Secret crush, there in your arms, beautiful eyes,” Lissa sighed as if this wasn’t our lover we were talking to.“Well ... um ... he ... we kissed. But I didn’t like it. Too much. I told him not to call me again.” Melody ended.“Meddy, you know nobody’s telling you not to have any fun while you are out there,” I said. “We know you love us.” I wasn’t completely convinced that I. What is happening up there? Bob I will get right back to you I need to see what is going on with the ship.”Barbara asked, “Bob, do you know what is happening? I mean we have never lost contact like that before.”“Barb honey, I think the solar flares are messing with the ship. The ship must move out of this orbit and move to be behind the planet from the sun. They must get to our dark side and stay there until the flares have subsided. Fred, can you hear me, if so and you can still communicate. ’ ‘We’ve got to have something!’ ‘Not him.’ [and that’s final] ‘Then what are we going to do? How do you expect us to– Oh, Jesus…’ It was the sirens again. Twice, now, they’d sounded. And they almost seemed louder this time. All at once, it was as if reality had come crashing down upon them, like all the rubble of their forgotten lives. Two sirens. Two consecutive sirens. The warning, and then… [dead] They didn’t know whether to feel like the weight of the world had been lifted, or like it had.