Her father had won after all.Why hadn’t she gone somewhere farther away? Why had she stayed in a city Corec visited regularly? Sure, Vash was here, ...but he wasn’t that close of a friend. Instead of Tyrsall, she could have gone to ... Her mind drew a blank. She knew people across the entire continent, but they were all like Vash. Acquaintances, or people she’d worked with once or twice. Hells, half of them were probably dead of old age by now. Humans aged quickly, and most demonborn did as. Suddenly she realized we could all see her black, straplessbra and instinctively wrapped her arms around herself. "This is fuckingabuse!" she yelled. "I didn't give you permission to do any of this." Natalie, you need to have an open mind," Lisa put in sympathetically. Ofcourse, I figured she'd probably been in Nat's position at least once."After my boyfriend dumped me, I tried to kill myself. Dr. Kay's methodsprobably saved my life." I don't care about any of that!" Natalie was trying to be. ....although the thought did excite me!Mistress Gloria and Mistress Penny then waltzed arm in arm into theparty. I was left standing there unable to do anything other than complywith Mistress Gloria's orders.Guests started arriving who did not know me, I got curious stares andsometime disgusted looks, but they did not know me so I felt OK. Kidsstarted to arrive and on the whole they simply collected their treatssmiling and left. Some of the older kids looked suspiciously at me. And acouple of. This number?”“Yup ... only one we got.”We hadn’t heard a thing a week later.“We haven’t heard from you and feet wet is calling.”“God ... I really hate to tell you this...”There was a really long pause ... long enough that I said, “Still there?”“Historically ... you can’t set foot ashore on Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota ... or Ontario.”“That’s a lot of leeway ... I thought there was a border.”“Those states claim the lakes and it’s never been settled ... exactly,” He said. “It’s.