At Littleham, a pleasant little station with three camping coaches, the token was exchanged.

Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

Not only did 9/11 confirm this, but the rising cases of social media terrorism though uncensored hate-blogs have also awakened the world to various groups of vindictive individuals who stop at nothing to achieve their objective of destroying the target.

Whether it was the cup he drank from, or the thirst that parched him, he took no thought, but it was the sweetest drink that ever passed his lips.