I GUESS IT WAS MY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGING MY ACCEPTANCE TO HIM.THE NEXT WEEK AS SOON AS I GOT IN THE CAR I SLID OVER FAIRLY CLOSE TO HIM.DAVE PUT HIS HAN...D ON MYTHIGH AND LEFT IT THERE. HE NEVER MOVED HIS HAND ANY HIGHER. ON THE WAY HOME DAVE SUGGESTED WESTOP FOR A FEW MINUTES AT THE PARK AND TALK. I TOLD HIM IT WAS NOT NECESSARY BECAUSE NO ONE WASAT HOME, MY MOTHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS AND THE HOUSEKEEPER HAD ALREADY LEFT FOR THE EVENING.DAVE SAID HE WOULD BE MORE COMFORTABLE IF WE JUST STOPPED AT. .. but." Was all she could get out, then a strange look came into her eyes. "Alright, we need to talk apparently Thoth has given me information that he could not speak to you. Like Bast he gave it to me to impart to you. Clever, very clever indeed." "What did Ra do? Restrict any of them from saying anything to a human? Though you are right it was a clever way to get the information to me." Ephus said. "Yes," Quinn replied. "You pretty much guessed it. I guess Ra expects humans to be smarter. If Larry wasnot my brother and this was of our will, it might have been OK. I knowwhy Larry feels this way. It was like being raped twice. The forced sexwas bad enough. Being made to do it with my brother hurts twice as much."I went to the Wellman Clinic. Belle was out of town. But Larry came tome. He said, "Nicole please forgive me. I was forced. I tried to fightbut.."I said, "I know Larry. I know. I was forced as well. I cannot forgiveyou. You were not at fault. We are both victims of the. I figured that there was plenty of time to relay to her that her parents were probably dead at the hands of the Taliban. I had worked with the Taliban before I knew they would literally eat this little girl up and her training would be quite harsh because she was a Western and a non-believer.I asked Alice if she had any other siblings, and she shook her head “no!”Then, she told me her daddy had gotten a divorce and her real mom had gone back to Sydney to her extended family telling her that she.