" Fine..." Maxie sounded resigned."So then back last summer there was this man." I gulped, wanting to stop, "In the Hyde Park bathrooms. He ... he att...acked me. Stole things from me. Things I didn't know you could take." I made my voice small, half wanting for Maxie not to hear, "He raped me." I took a hard shuddering breath, I had never said it out loud before. Never even said it in my own head, and now that fact was out there, flitting to Maxie's ears like a butterfly on wings of poison.. The feeling of a new life nursing on my milk was overwhelming. They left me alone with my baby while the vet cleaned me up and checked to see that I wasn't damaged from the birth. They moved me back to my regular stall and let my new baby calf stay with his mama. I rested and let him nurse whenever he wanted to. I drank lots of water and ate like there was never enough. After a couple of months he had grown so much. He was eating grain and I knew he would have to be weaned from my milk soon.. As he looked up at his captor, another act of magic left him feelinghopeless. The younger silver Inus came up bearing the dark one's arm.It handed it to the dark one, and said, "You know mastress, if youhadn't of caught him, I was going to get him instead." Apparently, ithad known that Dara had been watching it all along. The dark one tookits arm and said, "Oh, thank you Parsin, I was looking for this." Itpressed the arm's elbow end to its stump, and within seconds the twohad fused together.. That night I laid thinking about what happened. I told myself that nothing happened and everything was ok. The next morning I looked forward to swimming naked and left my trunks home. I finished up the backyard and started nailing up fence planks. It was hot working in the sun and I sweated till I was soaked. Mr. Scott was in the pool already and said to take a break. I stripped down and jumped in the pool. He was floating on his back, and I decided to do the same. I closed my eyes and.