Even the old medicine woman seemed to grin with a perverted sort of understanding when she opened the door to find Lys waiting outside. She was comfortable nowhere and ready to flee at any moment.

I NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN It felt like he was cutting my scrotum with an exacto knife. And this was only the needle, and the lydocaine squirt. The knife would come soon enough. He was keeping up a bright line of patter. He was about…