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tourniquet.
First aide books used to say that a tourniquet should be
loosened every few hours to let the injured limb get some
blood. What happened however, was that the limb and the
blood inside the limb died when its supply of fresh oxygen
was cut off. When a tourniquet is released, the dead blood
can flow back into the healthy body. This often had the effect
of killing the person.
Kit had been wearing the tourniquet for almost two days.
Her arm was well dead and the blood in that arm useless and
septic. The sudden release filled Kit with a blinding moment of
pain as the poison from her dead limb was pumped back into
her body. Her eyes rolled up into her head and she vomited
the meager contents of her stomach. She passed out and
could feel death begin to grip her.
A faint smile could be detected on her lips.
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"Nooooooooo!" James raged as he saw Kit succumb to the
poisons in her blood. He latched his fangs over her neck and
drank the sick blood greedily. He could feel her heart. He
could feel it pumping slower and slower. He tried to touch her
mind with his, but found only a vacant space.
She was dying. He wasn't ready for this, but she was
dying. There was only one thing to do. He tore open his shirt
and drew his fingernail deeply into his skin. His own cold
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blood rose to the wound and he held Kit's face to his breast.
Hoping, praying to his Master that he would have her back.
Kit found herself standing outside her body watching all
this with detached fascination. She supposed she should feel
bad, but she really didn't. She was only curious, but even her
curiosity would not hold her long. She felt a presence call to
her and she turned to see a dark tunnel in the corner of the
room.
She allowed herself to be drawn into it and could see a
glow at the other end. She had read enough about after life
experiences to understand all this, but the feeling was so
deep and so complete it made her want to giggle with delight.
She thought about all the skeptics that wrote off this
experience to brain chemistry and hoped they would not miss
this when their time came.
She wondered if an atheist could keep his convictions
staring into the face of creation. She laughed.
She was pulled to the light and found herself being drawn
to a person. She knew who it was long before she could
actually see her. She was with her friend Debbie one more
time. The two friends just floated together and embraced for
a long eternity.
"Oh, Debbie, I'm so happy to see you."
"Me too Kit, me too. I'm so happy to get to hold you again.
I really have missed you and Ginger."
"Well I suppose even death couldn't have kept us apart."
"No Kit it can't, but life can." Kit didn't understand. "Kit I
am dead, please believe me that I'm happy and I'm overjoyed
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to be with you now, but you are not dead. You won't be dead
for a very long time." She paused "I hope."
"I don't understand."
"You will and I pray that we will be together again some
time. I do miss you and Ginger so much, but it is not your
time. You have to go back. It will be painful, life is painful,
but you have to go back."
Kit felt like crying.
"Oh, Kit I love you so much. I wish I could take you in my
arms and bring you home, but I can't. Not know. I can only
tell you this, no matter what, no matter what anyone, what
anything says, your soul is your own. You will always have
the power to determine where you will rest."
"I don't understand."
"You will, you will." Debbie seemed to fade and Kit felt
herself being drawn back to her body.
Her feeling of well being fled as quickly as it had come.
She was cold and thirsty. Her physical pain, oddly had
ceased. Some time had passed because she was now alone.
She could feel and hear things she never had before.
She heard mice and rats running in the walls. She could
sense young lovers walking in a dark park somewhere. She
could smell the night. She knew with absolute certainty when
the sun would rise. Her senses were full.
She reached down and touched her dead arm. She was
shocked to see that not a single trace of the damage
remained. It was as supple and strong as it had ever been.
She balled her hand into a fist and relaxed it a number of
times. She felt strong and powerful.
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The only thing the bothered her was an overpowering
thirst. She thought for a minute and ran her tongue over her
sharp teeth. She started at the back and move slowly
forward, terrified at what she would find. Her soft tongue
snagged on a sharp fang that used to be her eyetooth. She
slid her tongue over to the other side of her mouth and found
its mate.
The full impact of her new existence fell upon her at once
and she once again broke down and sobbed hysterically.
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Chapter 16
Ginger knew she was playing with fire, perhaps walking a
tightrope was a better metaphor. Jean had not assigned her
to Kit's case, so she had no specific orders regarding her. She
had work to do and like any other snoop, was allowed time on
the system to do her own projects or just play. Though she
did not go into the Bondage Chateau (the chat room that
those interested in Dominance and submission visited) to visit
her Master, she still went to visit her friends. Ginger used a
lot of her free time to play in the bondage rooms. Since she
was not assigned to Kit's case, she could keep any
information she found out about Kit to herself.
No one would stop her from setting up any of the thirty or
more web based e-mail accounts that she had. No one would
stop her from subscribing to all of the D/s list serves (web
discussion groups) through these accounts. A web based e-
mail account did not route mail directly to your home server
as regular e-mail did, rather it routed it to a main web server
and the user accessed their account through the services web
page. It didn't leave a footprint on your home system. Many
chatters that wanted to protect their anonymity used these
accounts.
Ginger knew that Kit might use the net to find help if she
managed to get away from her captor. Ginger was going to
do everything in her power to help Kit if she detected her
presence. She knew what she was doing was against the
Committee's protocols and it would embarrass Jean, but she
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had to do it. She owed Kit that much. She also knew she was
risking her marriage.
Pat would also do what he could to help, but he was
assigned to the case, so it would be difficult. Since Julie didn't
even work for the Committee, she was the logical coordinator
for their clandestine operation. Pat told Julie about what he
knew, which was considerable at times and Julie would tell
Ginger. They all knew they were playing fast and loose with
the rules. They all hoped that they were doing the right thing.
The conspiracy had brought Ginger and Julie very close
together. Not only had Julie been jealous of Ginger's
relationship with Pat, she just had a visceral dislike of her.
Julie was everything Ginger was not. Julie was skinny and
angular. Ginger was soft and curvy. Julie's features were
stark and a little large for her face. Ginger was perfectly
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