I took away the box and told her that would be the last one she opened. We all ripped apart the paper on the other gifts, smiles on all faces when eac...h saw what they got. Then it came time for the final gift, I knew there were going to be tears of joy and I had her son follow her with camera in hand as she took her journey. She first opened a present that was under the tree, inside was no gift but a note of longing love and the next step for her to take. The note took her in the direction of. Sitting down on a chair by the table on which the jeweler’s lathe sat, Catherine said, “You help others without asking for anything in return. We kind of identify with that sentiment.”“I haven’t done anything special.”Laura laughed and then said, “Ed Biggers told me that you did lots of things that were special.”“Ed?”“You remember Ed Biggers. Cowboy in a black robe who’s stuck with telling the truth all of the time. He can’t even tell a tall tale. That must be torture for a cowboy.” Catherine. I don’t resent him for it. He didn’t throw me into some kind of hell. Apparently The Company was some kind of interdimensional entertainment corporation. I didn’t really love the idea of being someone’s sex doll or action figure, but they assured me that hardly anyone actually wanted someone who wasn’t happy to be there, and they typically used the souls of serial rapists for that kind of client when they did show up.For a long time I just waited. Chatting occasionally with my neighbors or. What she was really doing was pressing even more of her weight down through my shoulders just exerting some more of her power over me. If only I realised then that Tahlia enjoyed girls suffering beneath her far more than any power trip, I might have realised what she was actually doing was quite deliberate and not just out of care for my vanity.As I squirmed and grunted now at the worsening pain in my shoulders, Tahlia leant even further forward, pressing even more of her weight down through my.