He limped along for a few minutes longer, taking in the devastation around him. Even if he couldn’t determine whether there had been fighting in thi...s area of the city, the smoke that rose into the cloudy sky, and the glow of fires on the horizon told him that not all areas of New Mombasa had been so lucky. There were pieces of jagged metal resting atop some of the buildings and blocking areas of the street. Could they be fragments from the orbital elevator?“Need immediate medical assistance?. ‘Shhh’ he said. ‘You don’t want get caught like this, no?’ ‘No’ I mumbled, feeling like I’d been told off. ‘No! Ok then. You want hard fuck but you keep quiet yes!’ He still sounded like he was telling me off and hanging my head in shame I just nodded and mumbled ‘ok, I’m sorry’. ‘Ok’ he replied in a softer tone, ‘you make noise and I go, ok. No fuck ok!’ I suddenly panicked at his suggestion that he’d just walk off at this stage. ‘Oh no, please!I’m so sorry! I’ll be quiet now I promise! Please. It had sounded as though she was giving a farewell instruction. In fact it meant a very great deal more. It meant that she, Sue, could not sit and hold Mark's hand while reading a book, which she had intended to do, but will him with all the affection she could muster to recover. She had never been given such a task. She had been taught to give patience and sympathy but now, by this pint-sized little blonde, she had been told to give love. She was stunned and affronted. "Who is this girl to. Time was his enemy, it reminded him that he was away from theonly thing that brought him any satisfaction. There was no way he couldtake the heels and dresses on the road. One whiff of his predeliction andhis career would be over. He remembered the last time that had happenednearly fifteen years ago. He'd been 15 and puberty had been slow to arrive. He'd always lovedwomen's clothes but he was totally enamored of Marilyn Monroe and he'dconvinced his mom to let him dress up as her that Halloween..