She’s not too steady on her feet.” Solace’s words jolted Rosanna out of her momentary inertia. She had stood by watching L. D.’s rising panic.... She heard the dreaded three-word sentence and realized that the warm night air was doing nothing to stave off the chill of fear that made its way unbidden up her spine. She had known and loved Solace for five years and had never actually pondered what it would be like to be a blind person. She had simply accepted the fact as a part of Solace, only ever. Youre older now, and Ive already broken you in. He pushed a finger into me through the pants as if demonstrating what he had done before. Now shut up, and take whats coming to you! He shouted before slapping me for shaking my head. The fear froze me to the spot, he kept rubbing at my vagina, playing and poking me through me pants. I began to cry silent tears, I knew this was wrong, he knew this was wrong so why was he doing it to me? He pulled my pants away from my waste, exposing me. The. The Yr’ch’s ethos had now moved (with a little meddling from Athena and her Theurgists) to that of exploration and holding what they owned, not seeking conquest ... if eliminating any real threats they happened across. Yes, they were still naturally combative, as their sports and games tended to bear witness to, but you had to be a threat to their existence (or take something that they considered theirs) in order for deadly violence to ensue. In all this, leaders, such as Crnnch and the other. ? When they washed the car, they would oftenspray each other and throw the bucket of suds over each other.? One of them would often push the other intothe pool while that person was cleaning the pool.? And even into high school, they would cuddlewith each other in the evening, with Katie often falling asleep with her headon her Dad?s chest or lap.? They werevery comfortable with each other?in part because they lived alone, just the twoof them, but in part because they share relatively small.