No worries. I need to tell you something important, though.”“Okay, I am awake. Fire away,” she answered.Mark said softly, but confidently,”Kat...ie, I am gay.”There was a bit of a pause. Mark could hear Katie chuckle softly.“I already figured that out, Marcus!” She answered. “I did grow up with you. I have seen stuff left behind on the computer over the years. But I didn’t know for sure until I saw that picture of you and that hunk.”“Zach?” Mark asked.“Yeah, I saw that picture of you two in your. ” This was the tone that could make a whole lecture hall come to attention in the blink of an eye. “If you stay, you’re going to be here for my pleasure, not for yours. You’re going to do whatever I tell you to, and take a punishment if you refuse or fail.” She started to walk around, slowly, the carpet swallowing the sound of her high heels, and I felt her eyes roam all over my body. “You’re a bright girl, Allie.” Her voice was right behind me and tickled my neck. I could barely stop the moan.. .. to wit ... dead sea gulls and bubbles on the ocean.Not only were the gulls dying ... the fishing had turned to shit. Washington had been informed but there wasn't any money it it so the politicians ignored the peons ... nothing unusual there. And besides that, there seemed to be multiple earthquakes ... not daily ... but hourly. There were so many earthquakes that the USGS had stopped posting hourly results but was now reporting the daily total.From Lassen Peak to Silverthrone Caldera, the. Only when he was certain, did he let people in with flashlights to start looking for the pane of glass they needed. That took another hour of hunting and looking and then loading it onto the back of a five ton stake.As I said above leaving was a bit of a problem. The first problem was easily solved. A few zombies that hadn't gotten chewed up the day before with the flail had shown up outside the company's compound. Dork just told his men to destroy them with their swords and axes and that was.