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What did you think was happening in Chapter 1?

It started out like we were going to get our first body right away. A suicide or something made to look like a suicide. From some of the 'thoughts that were taking place it seemed more like someone was helping out with the supposed suicide.

Seems to me like an assisted suicide of a young man by a woman.

It seemed like someone was describing the hanging. Almost chatting with the victim.

>3 EadieB: Interesting that you thought "by a woman." Just curious why you thought it was a woman.

>5 Carol420: On page 2 mid-page says: I let my hand drop lightly down, stroking him with my nails.... That whole paragraph reminds me of a woman or a gay guy.

>6 EadieB: Ah that makes sense. If it was a woman she should be easy to find. She's the one with all the muscles:)

I agree with you all, a hanging was being set in place; there was the possibility that the victim might have been complicit, and yet I had the feeling that this was murder...
Like Eadie, I felt the non-victim was a woman.

I also thought it was a hanging--but I somehow felt this was murder, not suicide. I thought the victim was perhaps drugged (Rohypnol or GHB?).

It didn't occur to me that it was a woman assisting. Good idea!

>6 EadieB: I agree with Eadie - it was the bit about the nails that made it seem like the other person was a victim.

It appeared to be an "assisted" hanging thought I don't really think that the victim was a willing participant. The fact that he didn't talk or move (other than the erection) during the scene made me think he was incapacitated at the time, maybe drugged.

Assisted suicide. I was thinking of hypnosis. But I was thinking a man. My first impression was that it was more a boy than a man being hanged, maybe because he was so docile.

I also thought of assisted suicide but possibly where the person didn't want to be assisted or didn't want to commit suicide. Definitely thought drugs must be involved. Well done on the thinking about a woman, this didn't occur to me.

Maybe assisted suicide is the wrong wording. I don’t think the victims would have gone through with it on their own.

>13 sushicat: True.

>13 sushicat: But with assistance they were able to commit suicide.