CHAPTER THIRTEEN Charlie There’s been a flurry of activity going on in the s****l training of Marni Wilder. She came home from the piercing party insisting that we start in immediately with the next phase. I wasn’t even sure what that was at the moment, but of course, I did the opposite, putting her to bed so she could rest, and waiting nearly a week before I started anything new. She needed to calm, and for some of the physical and mental pain to subside. She took my investigation of her private life pretty hard. But then yesterday—feeling a little less pain—she brought up the subject again. She wants to get the training over with. I tried to explain that it’s not about getting it over with; relearning your life is much more complicated than that, but still she wants to press harder.

