I was sitting in the bar awaiting his arrival and kept scrutinising every male that walked in door. This got me several strange looks back until a lov...ely young woman of about twenty with short blonde hair and dripping wet entered. She was wearing a coat to protect her against the elements as it was pelting down outside and when she removed it to reveal a fairly short mini dress confining her lean frame and looked around. Spotting me on my own she walked straight up to me introduced herself as. The only saving grace was the fact that women and girls were by nature pretty non-violent and a curious side effect of the die-off was that it seemed few criminals survived. It was probably related to the intelligence thing, but who knew?Unfortunately some of main staff positions had to be filled by active agents because there were not enough survivors among the staff. A lot of cross training was going on so that more people could do more jobs.Francis herself had escaped cross training headache. We were starving, and we knew we would have to face seeing them sooner or later. She shrugged. I nodded. We walked in and joined them. I was nervous, and Jackie looked terrified.Fred hugged Jackie and offered her a seat. Maria hugged her as she sat down. I shook hands with Fred and smiled a greeting to Maria, who just smiled back.“How did you guys feel this morning?” Maria asked as she took a sip of coffee.“I was fine, but Jackie had a bit of a rough time. Thank Goodness this place serves. “But I like to think of it as your slave collar. You’re now my property.”“What? No! Take it off!” Nancy tugged at the choker but it refused to budge.“It’s locked on and I have the only key, little one,” said Beulah, “and I’ll be very unhappy if you try to remove it from around your pretty neck. Now get dressed.”“Go to blazes!” Nancy tried to push Beulah away but her adversary was much too strong. Beulah shoved Nancy’s face into a pillow and bent her over at the waist. Nancy struggled all the.