”“Really! I’d love to see that.”“I’ll send you a selfie. Hold on.”After a while, she asked, “How’s that?” as I looked at her selfi...e.“Wow, Lynn! You look so gorgeous! But where’s your t-shirt?”“I took it off.”“Are you teasing me, sweetie?”“Who me? I would never do that,” she replied with a lot of mischief.“Gosh! You are just so gorgeous, Lynn! And I like your hair parted off-center like that.”“Oh, good! Then that’s how I’ll wear it from now on.”“And you look so happy compared to the other day in. It was vital they had the right person for the job, but here she was, and there was know avoiding it now. They started with a tour of the building, at first Ivy seemed nervous, but she was asking intelligent questions and she seemed genuinely interested in his answers. His feeling of trepidation began to ease off. He was running through his spiel, the one he usually gave to people who’d never seen the round house before. He stopped talking when he noticed she was she was studying something with. ”Yeah, Haley’s got that smirk, so she’s already privy to this conversation.I suspected that Doctor Seavers wanted a bit of time for whatever challenge he might offer to Haley. I was right. Haley’s presence was requested in the morning on Wednesday after our Monday meeting.She dropped Deena off at the middle school, then went to the college campus to meet her fate.“I appreciate you wanting to be here for my moral support, honey,” she told me with a kiss as she left. “I have to get used to being. It was unimaginable. Even as her thoughts ran on, her torturers were moving behind her, theirwhips in hand. She twisted her head to see what was happening and her eyesfell on the evil looking whips they held. Each whip was five feet of shiny,plaited leather. At the grips, they measured about three quarters of an inch.From there they tapered to slender thongs at their tips which lay trailingon the ground. Not lethal, these implements, but much more powerful than theprevious straps, they would.