I’m building with green lumber which, according to what I have read, is probably going to warp as it dries, and will look like shit. Maybe I can saw... out enough lumber during the winter to have sufficient dried lumber one of these days. Shit. Always something that I need to do.Finally, about midday, the fish was dry, and he began bringing it in and storing it in his boxed shelves.He had two lanterns, but other than testing it, he just kept the second lantern for a spare, should something happen. She could barely walk, her breasts, swollen and in pain, seemed to have gotten infected from the nail wounds. She looked at them, detachedly."It will not matter anyway, in one or two days," she said to herself.She made it to the bathroom and then, still nude, sat on an armchair to wait for her torturer to arrive.Manu, with his de-facto assistant Aisha found her sitting up in the chair, drinking juice."Is it time?" Her voice had recovered a little, and she could now speak, not too loudly."Yes my. “I haven’t got the energy to niggle, Harmonia.”“Don’t want to argue anymore,” Harmonia said, helping herself, uninvited I might add, to the mead.She wouldn’t catch my eye but raised her cup towards me. “All my life I’ve been angry at your easy run, knowing I’m the better woman. I was wrong. You didn’t lead because of your father. You led because you could best wield the ring of power.”I was stunned, barely comprehending that Harmonia, fucking Harmonia, with whom I had squabbled all my life,. Now she started speaking to him in an almost sing song cadence that had captured so many hapless victims before him. ‘ I think you should just look into my eyes, Larry, and rest now, my little pet. It’s been such a busy afternoon for you, and you feel so helpless and tired, tied down like you are, trapped under my weight. Inhaling the sweet, spicy odors coming from my body, and looking into my eyes. It ALL makes you so tired, doesn’t it. You NEED to rest. I can see it in YOUR eyes. You feel so.