Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

said in English, then repeated the same statement inKassidorian. The officer shook his head, so did the woman.The woman said something to her with great sympathy, andthen motioned her men to take Ava in the back.In her whole life, she had never actually been thrown intoa dungeon before. The closest she ever came in the past waswhen she was ten years old and some of the neighborhoodpunks locked her in one of the dusty old utility rooms in theparking garage they lived in. They were going to rape her butfound they were still too young, though they did manage toget her clothes off. When her father came down to that roomto hide out with his bottle, he found her still crying as shetried to get her clothes back together. He actually comfortedher and they had a talk about what goes where in humangenitalia. That was when he told her that she would probablyhave little choice of who she had sex with and when she hadit. He taught her how to make the best of it. He cried thewhole time, saying he wished he had a better life to give her,a life like people had when this parking garage was built. Shelooked at the mossy and eroding concrete and could scarcelyimagine so ancient a time. She felt closer to her father forthose few minutes than she ever had before or since. Then hesent her home and did his pint of whiskey.This dungeon was rough stone rather than crumblingconcrete, no plaster. There was a wooden pail, and a smallwooden pallet, maybe six feet long and two feet wide, filledwith straw. It was moldy and smelled of urine. The sergeant,381