The other older nurses appeared and started chatting to Edna, which was good because I couldn't think of much to say apart from talking 'shop'. Janice... and I sloped away and looked for people our own age to talk to. Surprisingly there weren't any. Most people seemed either to be in their 30s and 40s, or else in their young teens, presumably friends of the daughter. We seemed to be in a generation black hole, the only 20 something guests there. We talked to a few of the guests for a short while. No I just like coming over and helping out, its what neighbors do.??So if I wasn’t with Bill you would look at things differently???That’s not what I said, and you are with Bill so it doesn’t matter.? ?Have you ever thought of being submissive to a woman, like a slave? That’s the jest of the whole thing, Bill thinks you would make a good slave and thinks you want to be. You know I am Bills sub right???I kinda got that idea, there’s enough toys around here, you don’t really try to hide it. And. He tried to tell her and anyone else that would listen that he was NOT a social person. The phone on his desk rang, bringing him out of his deepening gloom."Hello. Jack speaking."A voice quite unlike any he had heard before, dripping with menace and dread, stated "Your world will be destroyed tonight. You will die." Who is this? What game are you trying to play?" he attempted to ask, but the line was already switching back to dial tone. Looking down at the caller id display on the office phone,. Damn, girl! How long's it been- ten years? "I told you before. I'm a woman, not a girl. Please don't make that mistake again." Something in her tone made Jason glance sideways at her. She was looking straight at him, with a very hard look in her eye. "Jeez, hey, no problem," he said, "Take it easy." She didn't say anything else for quite a few miles. Finally, to break the silence, Jason said, "So what was that business with the drunk's wrist? He looked like he was having a coronary!" .