A concentration of bright lights back to the south, almost out of his range, was his army - if you could call it that - and the other residents of the... Chapel, now camped in the forest until Smythe gave the order to move again. Elsa was back there; he could feel her in his mind, comforting like a warm bowl of soup between cold fingers on a winter morning. Kedron and Ostin were with the army, too, their lights much brighter and clearer than the others for being arohim.Induin and Liaren were there. "I was planning to make up to you. Everything you said about us was true, I was hopeless." Hence the flowers?" Yes, but what good is it? I have no idea what to do. I can’t make money for you— you’ve got more than me. I can’t seduce you— you’re better at it than me. All I can do is ask dumb lawyer questions, where’s the fun in that, where does that get us, where does it leave me?" The tears rolled again."Please love, don’t," she said. "I should have told you before. I used you. You made the. Conscious thought arrived shortly thereafter. Sunday morning. Nothing to do. Golden morning sun lit the bedroom. I could feel it warming the bedcovers over me.Scent filled the air, light and delicate, floral; Cassie's perfume still lingering from last night. I held her. She was curled up like a child, asleep, her breathing only detectable by the movement of her back. I was spooning her, my knees curled up, my groin nestled against her firm bottom. With one arm under her neck and the other over. In themiddle of the surface was a hole with a plastic pan under the hole. Sheleaned down and swung the box open. It was split and hinged horizontally,the bottom of the box was padded and lined with plastic. There was a holeon the upper half of the box, now swung open, revealing the underside ofthe toilet lid. There was a half-circular hole in each of the box halves,open to the padded platform. Instead of shackles, this one had a woodenstockade for his ankles, and two smaller stockades that.