Crap… I said meekly as she was about to pounce on me and beat the life out of me. I blocked her punches and scratches with my arms over my face. She... still managed to get a good hand full of my hair and bang my head on the hard roof. Just as I was about to black out I saw a blue flame. It was cold even though it was clearly a large blue flame then it spoke to me. Your going to let a mere mortal get the best of you? Defend yourself! I stared at it dumb founded a flame shouldnt be able to speak. The two women took the wounded man and carried him toward the forest.Vincent then slowly walked toward the next post. While getting there he looked around and saw a disgusting scene. Everywhere his eyes felt he could see traces of the celebration. Many had even defecated right there near the fire and they must have done this in full view of everyone else. Then he saw limbs and blood from the prisoners on the ground. He took his time to check the other prisoners, but all of them were dead. Some. It's the desire for heroin that's making me sweat.But she lied to herself, and she knew it. It was fear--fear that she wouldn't be strong enough when the time came to make a choice. Fear that maybe, just maybe, she would choose to live in her body as an animal, as a manifestation of lust, as nothing.Quietly she cried herself to sleep.When Manuel came again, was it days or hours, Renee wondered dully? He unleashed them and let them sit up and eat bowls of foul smelling soup and bean tacos.Renee. Went to school for twenty years straight then got my mentors job when he retired. I have a lab at the university but I am just a visiting professor. I do teach one class of consumer psychology and the class on interpreting standardized testing.I mostly work for a business consortium that wants their products and their ads to have better appeal to consumers. I test the ads on the students and report back.”Zelda kissed me softly and said, “I knew that. You are hard to miss.”We were kissing again.