The first week in February was warm, but it was always warm in California and Susan often missed the cold winter months in Tennessee. She was sitting on her couch waiting for her next interview for the caretaker job at her home. The house Miley purchased was finished with the remodeling and Susan was all set to move in with her daughter and their Mistress and she already moved most of her personal belongings into the house where Lilly and Miley now lived.

She was looking over the short resume of a one Trevor Mitchell and thought the name sounded familiar when the doorbell rang. The woman got up; smoothed out the red sundress she was wearing and hoped this applicant would pass her interview as she went to the door. She had interviewed many people in the past week and was getting annoyed with some of the strange people who applied for the job. Most were just fans of Miley who wanted nothing but to be in the house where her daughter had lived.

When Susan opened the door she immediately knew why the applicant's name sounder familiar. Trevor Mitchell was a former student of hers who graduated four years ago. Trevor was a young black man who stood at least six foot four inches and the muscles on his arms and chest looked like they were going to burst out of the long sleeves of his button down shirt. Susan's first thought was how handsome the man was standing there towering over her. His skin was dark black and his hair was cut short.

"Nice to see you again, Trevor." Susan smiled as she stepped aside to allow the man into her house. "Please come in."

Trevor grinned, "I did not know if you remembered me or not, Miss. Stewart."

"Of course I do. You received a football scholarship from USC right?"

"Yes, ma'am, tailback but I blew out my knee sophomore year and lost it so I transferred to Santa Monica." Trevor replied as he followed the older woman into the house.

Once in the living room Susan motion to the couch, "Please have a seat."

Trevor sat down and Susan could have sworn she heard the chair groan as the young man say down. His big muscular frame made the large recliner seem like a child's play chair. Susan sat on the sofa facing him.

"Well I am sorry about your knee but happy to hear that you are continuing your education." Susan said as she crossed her legs in a lady like fashion and picked up the young man's resume. She noticed that his eyes briefly glanced at her tan legs and then chest and then he quickly looked away. His appraising look flattered her.

"Yes, Ma'am, and that's why I applied for the job. Without the scholarship money got tight. I couldn't afford USC so I transferred cause I promised my mother I would get a degree and my girlfriend goes to Santa Monica."

If I remember right, and please forgive my ignorance on sports, but it was because of you that our school won the state championship your senior year."

Trevor grinned, "We had a good team so I can't take all the credit."

Susan smiled, she liked that his answers about him finishing up college for his mother and that he did not take all the credit for the team sport. The interview went very smooth and the young man was polite and did not leer at Susan as most of the male applicants she interviewed had. She liked him and his apparent work ethic. After about forty five minutes, Susan put her notes and other papers aside and explained the duties required.

"Any questions for me," Susan asked.

"No, ma'am, you outlined everything very well."

Susan stood up and Trevor followed her action and placed his very large hand in the woman's delicate small one as she extended her arm for the hand shake.

"Good, you can start moving your belongings into the guest house as soon as you like. My daughter's friend Lilly already moved her stuff out."

Trevor smiled, "So I got the job?"

"Yes, but a few more things. Miley sometimes likes to come home on weekends and go horseback riding and a few times the paparazzi have been known to break the restraining order about coming onto our property and I don't want any physical trouble but would you be opposed to ordering them off if need be? Horseback riding is like her escape from her career and her alone time."

"Oh no ma'am, I will make sure she has a peaceful visit."

"Good and I have to mention this but I do expect…well…being who she is and all that she is left alone and no asking for pictures or autographs for yourself or family or friends." Susan told him.

Trevor chuckled, "Miss Stewart, no offense but her music is not my style and while I can respect her as a performer I am not a fan of her music."

Susan laughed, "I am not offended but actually pleased with that."

The woman escorted the young man to the door and again shook his hand and watched as he took a few steps out the door and then he turned around.

"Miss Stewart, I hope you don't mind me saying this but you are so much different away from school."

"Oh how am I different?"

Trevor smiled, "Well at school we were all afraid of you. Not physically of course but just your presence and strictness. You had this like aura of authority and command about you that I think everyone in the school was afraid just to disappoint you and when kids were called into your office when they did something wrong it was like a prisoner going to the gas chamber or something."

Susan laughed as the young man walked away. Back in the house she thought of what he had said and wondered if she still had that presence her students feared. She certainly did not with Lilly or Amber but maybe with Miley and Mikayla and Ashley it shown. When with those three they seemed to obey her and do what she told them. Susan wondered how she would react now if one of her older dominate students came into her office and told her to take off her clothes and bend over the desk so they could fuck her. She giggled at that thought and knew last year she would have that student expelled but now she may just do what she was told and allow it.

Susan went into her bedroom and got what little clothes remained in her closet, packed them in a suitcase, and grinned wide; this would be the last time she would be in the house on a full time basis and she hurried out the door to go to her new home where her Mistress and daughter waited for her. She was hoping at least one of the two would be there and want to play because being in a room for close to an hour with such a handsome young man was arousing to her.

"Mother, why are you so nervous about tonight?" Miley asked Susan as she washed the older woman's back.

"I just don't know if it's a good idea for us three to go to a party at Tracy's together. From the way you and Lilly described her private parties; people will know about our living arrangement and how you and I are more than just mother and daughter.

"They are not orgies, mom, I mean it's not like everyone has sex in the same room and stuff. True there is a gang bang room where any guy can go into and have sex with a girl who is in there. If she is in that room then she knows what is going to happen to her and she allows it." Miley explained as she rinsed her mother's back. "No turn around so we can wash each other's front."

Susan stood up and turned around and sat back down in the tub as both mother and daughter positioned their legs to extend out and wrap around one another and move closer to each other. Since Susan moved in with Miley and their Mistress, both mother and daughter bathed together and washed each other as much as possible. They enjoyed the closeness, touching, and seeing each other naked even if there were not going to have sex; it was more sensual than foreplay. Susan and Miley both had their own bedrooms as well, but slept together naked in one bed when allowed when Lilly did not have them both in her bed or when their blonde Mistress did not take one of the ladies to bed with her and leave the other alone for the night. They both groomed each other when time allowed by doing each other's hair and makeup; which was normally on weekends since Miley had to get up early during the week for classes and the young girl was rushing in the morning as not to be late. On Tuesdays and Thursday s their Mistress had a late class so when Miley got home on those days her and her mother would run a warm bubble bath and bathe each other and just enjoy their closeness before Lilly got home.

Over all things seemed to be going perfect for the three. Susan adjusted to her role as Lilly's live in submissive perfectly and as the "alpha" sub. She kept the house in order and delegated chores to her daughter and cooked for her Mistress and Miley; Susan was still trying to teach Miley how to be a better cook but so far her daughter had not picked up the skill very well. Sexually their living arrangement was incredible for the three.

After chores were done and homework completed the three had constant almost nonstop sex until they lay spent and exhausted in each other's arms. Lilly only dominated both of them hardcore three times in the two weeks Susan had moved in and the other times she would either have both girls join her in her bed or select either Susan or Miley for the night to leave the other one alone and wanting. Sex became an incentive for Miley to finish her homework or not to procrastinate on her schoolwork; if she was not done with the work her mother scheduled her to complete for the night, Lilly would take Susan alone until the younger girl finished her work for class. The only thing both mother and daughter were eager to see was the basement area that had been transformed into a mini-dungeon with various BDSM toys and furniture in the room; but their Mistress had placed a lock on the door leading to the basement and explained it was for special occasions only to tease them.

Susan let out a moan of pleasure as her daughter washed her breasts and spent a little more time on her erect nipples than was needed.

"Umm…stop that." Susan said with a smile.

Miley giggled, "Don't be nervous, mother, the parties are not like hundreds and people but limited to about twenty to thirty and ninety-nine percent of them are either celebrities or other people who are scrutinized by the public so everyone is super discreet plus if Mistress does have you and I do anything sexually together it would be in a private room away from others."

Susan smiled as she washed her daughter's chest, "Ok and I admit I am very curious about these parties."

Miley grinned, "Yeah and it's her Valentine's Day Party and they are so much fun. Just be glad it's not her charity mini golf event she has every year and Mistress has you work one of the holes like she did me last year."

Susan raised her eyebrow, "Oh I am curious now. What is so special about the mini golf event? Do you have to do something like perform oral sex on everyone who gets a hole in one on the hole you work or something?"

Miley laughed and shook her head, "I wish it was that easy and fun. No when you work the hole you are the hole. Tracy sets up the course on a raised platform and the submissive working the hole, male or female, is…ummm…ok picture this; a clear plastic container the size of a soda can with one end open placed in your ass and then you are placed on your back under the platform and your ass is pressed up against the golf hole and the ball is putted into the plastic container in your ass."

Susan wrinkled her nose, "Oh dear. I hope Mistress does not plan to attend the event this year."

Miley laughed again, "Yeah it sucks and my ass was sore for three days."

Much later that evening, Susan stood at the bar at Tracy's party waiting for her drink order; she had ordered a water for herself and a soda for her Mistress and Miley. As much as she would have liked to have a glass of wine to calm her nerves no alcohol was served at these parties for safety reasons; it could be dangerous to have a drunk dominate to submissive when hard core BDSM play was involved. Susan was nervous but also excited; Miley had been right about the guests; most were celebrities she had seen on television, movies, concert stage, or even a few athletes and they would want to be very discreet about their involvement in such a lifestyle. Susan glanced at her Mistress's table and smiled as she saw Lilly dressed in her black skin tight latex mini dress and thigh high boots with Miley kneeling at her feet wearing a very revealing black leather bikini outfit with knee high boots and her "Slut" collar around her neck. Sitting at the table was a tall muscular white man that Susan recognized from several action movies. Her Mistress was laughing at something he said and Susan saw Miley blush even at this distance. Per her Mistress's order, Susan wore her harness top and extremely short skirt with the puffy hem line and black heels and white panties and she also wore her collar that read "Whore." She turned to face the bar and the gave a startled jump when she felt fingers caress her back.

"Mikayla!" Susan shouted when she turned around.

The pretty young brunette was grinning at the older woman and then the two hugged tight and the Mikayla kissed Susan's lips gently.

"Hello, Susan, it's so good to see you again and at one of Tracy's parties."

Mikayla was dressed in a red bustier top with laces running up the front and cut low to show her cleavage, her skirt was of the same red leather and very short that the hem just barely covered her butt cheeks and one could tell she wore thong panties and on the side of the skirt were laces tied spread apart to show her thighs. On her feet were red three inch spiked heels. Her long black hair was styled down and Susan thought she looked beautiful and told the younger girl so.

Mikayla giggled and curtsied, "Thank you. You look great yourself."

"Maybe we can play together tonight. With Mistress and Miley. I am sure Mistress would like that." Susan said with eagerness in her voice. She really had a thing for the young starlet.

Mikayla gave a mock pout and shook her head, "That would be fun and trust me I would love to see you fuck Miley…that is way cool and sexy and freaking hot, but I am with someone." She then smiled brightly. "I think this may be like something that will last. She is great."

Mikayla looked to the left side of the room and Susan's eyes followed her gaze and she saw the Mistress Mikayla was with for the night. Susan was shocked and also strangely felt jealous. The lady Mikayla nodded to was a famous anchor woman on a worldwide news station and had her own morning show. She was chatting with Tracy, who had at her side a very cute small brunette girl on a leash who knelt completely naked and silent next to her Mistress. Miley had pointed her out earlier to her and Lilly and said her name was Amber and thought their Mistress would enjoy her sometime. While Susan was surprised at the people she had seen and who they were attending the party, this woman was a complete shock to her. Susan watched her every morning and knew the woman was married and lived in Atlanta with her husband. The older woman was also jealous and found that disturbing.

The Mistress Mikayla was with was the around the same age as Susan and while Susan knew she looked younger and was pretty this woman was just stunning beautiful and looked better in person than television. Her body was curvy and her large breasts threatened to burst out of the corset top she wore. Susan suddenly remembered what Miley had told her about Mikayla; "She is looking for a mother figure to be her Mistress." Susan had no right to be jealous nor any reason to be. She was Lilly's submissive and knew that while her and Mikayla became very good friends and exchanged text messages often and Susan even told her about her sexual relationship with Miley. They were just friends even if they had sex together. Miley had explained to her in a lifestyle like they had together where multiple partners would be included in their sex lives jealousy had no place. It was just sex unless it was between her, Susan and their Mistress that loved one another. Heck Susan herself had sex with other people besides Miley and Lilly and enjoyed it a great deal so she had no clue as to why she got jealous.

"But…but she is married and…Mikayla be careful, darling." Susan warned.

Mikayla nodded, "I know she is but she and her husband really don't see each other much and hell they almost live apart and she said when they are in the same home they never sleep together. We met at a charity event in Miami and just chatted briefly and then later that night I went to a private BDSM club and saw her there. I was shocked and at first thought since she is a news woman she was like doing a story and I freaked out that I would be seen, but she saw me and we started talking and she was there for the same reason as me and one thing led to another and soon I found myself in a private room with her tied up and having fun." Mikayla giggled. "We have been seeing each other for about a month and well…Susan I think I am in love. I swear I am. I would do this full time with someone I love and I think she is that person."

"Oh…well…just…please be careful, I don't want you to get your heart broken." Susan expressed her concern and sincerity.

"I won't…I mean we have to keep it on the down low of course being who we both are, but I think she may even feel the same way."

Susan nodded and saw Mikayla's Mistress walking toward them with the girl Amber being behind her being led by her leash.

Mikayla introduced them and Susan gave a perfect curtsey and thought the woman was even prettier up close and very well spoken. She then got a closer look at the girl Amber and thought she was just darling with her very small breasts but dark perky nipples and the black tuft of well-trimmed pubic hair covering her sex. She looked about seventeen but Susan knew form Miley she was older and she was so small and petite and very cute. So adorably cute it was hard to take your eyes off her like a white tiger cub playing cute. The young petite girl did not seem at all concerned with her lack of clothes and Susan figured she must be used to being naked in front of this many people.

"I had a nice conversation with that Tracy woman." The Mistress told Mikayla, "She is so sweet and a perfect hostess. She even gave us her favorite toy to play with tonight so come along, Sunshine, and Amber will escort us to a private room."

"Yes, Miss Robin," Mikayla answered and smiled her good bye to Susan and the three walked off.

Susan walked her drinks back to her waiting Mistress and daughter and placed them on the table and then kneeled at Lilly's feet next to Miley. Her daughter seemed very giddy and as soon as Susan kneeled the man at the table stood up and took Miley's hand and helped her to her feet.

"Thank you, Lilly; we will take good care of her." He said.

Lilly laughed, "I am sure you will. You know what can be done to her and not be done and make sure the others do as well."

The man grinned, "Yes I will watch after her. Don't I always."

Lilly smiled at him, "Yes I trust you with her." She then looked at Miley, "When they are done with you go to the room Tracy gave us for the night and clean yourself up."

Miley grinned, "Yes, Mistress, and thank you so much Mistress."

Lilly smiled at her, "You have been a good slave so this is your reward."

The man led Miley form the table and Susan watched them disappear down some stairs in the corner of the main room. She looked up at Lilly but remained silent. Lilly had told both her and Miley good whores were to be seen and admired not heard unless spoken to. Lilly smiled at her as if she read her mind.

"He wanted to take her to the gang bang room. He has four other men waiting and since she had been so good and it's been a while since I let her I gave her permission. Don't worry, I trust him; he likes Miley a great deal and loves when she is the center of the gang bang he puts together so he'll take care of her."

Susan swallowed hard and nodded. She still was not sure how to handle that particular fetish her daughter had but could not say anything about it. While she may have been Miley's mother, her daughter was Lilly's slave and their Mistress had proven to her more than once who really controlled Miley and it was not her mother. Plus what could she say? They enjoyed a taboo and perverse sexual relationship between them and then add that they were extremely and willing submissive to the same Mistress and that Susan herself had multiple sex partners with Lilly and Miley both she had no right to judge or comment on her daughter's desire to be gang banged.

"We will check in on her in a moment to ease your mind."

Lilly told her as if reading her mind again. Susan was sometimes in a little awe of how their Mistress seemed to always know what they were thinking and other times it scared and frightened her.

"Yes, Mistress." Susan responded and she turned her thoughts back to Mikayla and her jealousy.

Lilly ran her fingers though Susan's hair with affection, "I saw you talking to Mikayla."

Susan nodded and once again Lilly read her thoughts. "Yes, Mistress."

"Don't worry it won't last. None of her relationships do. She picks the worse women. They never last more than a month maybe two or three." Lilly told her.

"I…I…that is not my concern, Mistress, she is a friend and I don't want her to get hurt that is all." Susan tried to cover up her jealousy of Mikayla that Lilly seemed to read on her like an open book.

Lilly laughed and Susan knew her Mistress did not believe her, "Ok fair enough."

She then leaned down and kissed Susan passionately and pulled back. "You have been good as well. Extremely good and have kept the house running perfect and even kept Miley under control with her school work and that has impressed me so you get a special treat tonight as well."

Susan smiled. She was felt happy and giddy she pleased her Mistress, "Thank you, Mistress."

"Come, lets glance in on your whore daughter and then you get your treat." Lilly told her and stood up.

Susan immediately got to her feet and followed her Mistress out of the room and down the stairs and into the room where her daughter was taken to be used sexually by a group of men. When they entered the room, Susan was surprised at the room and it was not as she had thought in her mind. She pictured a dimly lit, smelly, small dark room with a soiled bed for the girl to be used on; but what she saw was different. The room was large and brightly lit and while there was a bed in the room the size of two king beds it was clean. Around the room where nice padded chairs set up and tow were already occupied by people who just liked to watch; one by what looked like a middle aged woman whose eyes were focused on the action in the middle of the room and she was masturbating and the other by a young man and his submissive girl was on her knees in front of him giving him oral sex. Susan looked closer at the girl on her knees with the man's penis in her mouth.

"Is that…oh my God that's…" she exclaimed to her Mistress.

Lilly laughed, "Yes and a shame she is only into men; I have been wanting to fuck her from the first time Miley and I saw her at Tracy's parties."

Susan gulped and was shocked. The young lady was a very famous, sexy, beautiful, and extremely talented Jewish American actress in her early thirty's. Susan was so fascinated seeing the actress and what she was doing she almost forgot about her daughter but Miley's sudden loud gasp of pleasure drew her attention to the center of the room.

Susan was not sure how she was going to react seeing her own daughter being gang banged but was not surprised it turned her on either. After all she would have thought having sex with her own daughter would have repulsed her but she enjoyed that a great deal and then the water sports game her and Miley played every Wednesday evening when their Mistress had her late class excited her as well and she would have thought that would have disgusted her. Before they took their bath together, Susan would drink a great deal of water and wait for Miley to come home and then both would strip naked and Miley would kneel in the bathtub as her mother peed on her. It excited Susan more than she thought it would and the last time Susan had her daughter keep her panties on and also pee as she stood over the young girl and urinated. Susan got aroused seeing Miley pee in her panties. After they were done the two would take a long sensual bath and bath one another; so she was not shocked that seeing Miley with so many men turned her on.

Miley was already naked and on her knees. She had a man's penis in her mouth, one in each hand, a third man was on her knees in front of her sucking her breasts while he thrust his fingers in and out of her sex hard, and the fourth and fifth man stood over her stroking their erections. The man on her left grabbed Miley's head and pulled her mouth off the other man's penis and shoved his own cock in her mouth, which Miley took down her throat eagerly.

"Would you like to join them?" Lilly teased Susan.

While the sight aroused Susan, she shook her head, "No, Mistress."

Truly she would have liked to have sex with a male this evening, it had been a while since she had and even though the latex and plastic dildo's satisfied her, Susan missed the real thing and also the feel of a man's come on her body and in her mouth. But that many men at one time was to many for her. She was not as young as her daughter and doubted she would be able to handle that many men in a single night; the most she had been with at one time was two when she fucked Jesse and his band mate and they wore her out completely that before they were done with her she was begging then she could not take anymore; which they ignored and continued to fuck her over and over regardless and that left her exhausted and sore for days.

Lilly laughed, "I did not think you were as big of a whore as your daughter. I am glad cause I have something else for you and I to do to enjoy ourselves anyway."

"How…how long will they do that to her?" Susan asked.

Lilly shrugged, "Until they can't get it up anymore I supposed. I never stayed to see her finish. I do know by the time they are done with her she will be useless to me for the rest of the night and the next day or two. There are five men now but some more may come in later, it's an open room. Some to just watch others to join in so who knows how long it will last."

"But…but, Mistress, what if they really hurt her? What if she wants it to stop and they don't." Susan expressed her concern for her daughter.

Lilly smiled, "They all know her safe word and if she uses it they stop. Plus see those two men over there?"

Lilly pointed to the back corner of the room where two very large muscular men stood. One white and the other black and both naked except for a loin cloth around their waist; it was obvious they were sexually excited by the action in the room.

"They work for Tracy and their job is to make sure any girl in this room who truly wants the gang bang to end that it ends. When it's over they will take Miley to our room, wash her, and then fi she wants them to they will fuck her also. Most of the time they don't even if Miley wants them to since she is way to used for them to get much pleasure out of her so they leave her and go find someone else to fuck. I fucked both of them last time Miley was gang banged." Lilly grinned, "Felt it was just the nice thing to do since they took care of my whore and they are both very good and well endowed. Come on lets go have our fun and leave your whore daughter to have her fun."

Susan just nodded and followed Lilly from the room. Not much shocked her anymore since she entered this lifestyle with her daughter and Mistress.

Miley did not even notice when her Mistress and mother entered the room nor when they left; she was to focused on her own pleasure and that of pleasing the men around her. Not that she needed to focus much on pleasing the men; they just used her body which was what excited the young pop star the most. Miley loved how one man would be forcing his erect penis past her parted lips and down her throat and fuck her mouth for a few moments now caring that she was gagging and choking and then another man would pull her hair forcing her mouth from the penis only to be replaced by another one. While her mouth was being used and her own saliva drooled heavily down her chin, Miley had a man's erection in each hand stroking them as best as she could while yet another was sucking her breasts and biting her nipples as her thrust three and sometimes four fingers hard into her very wet sex. This was what Miley wanted and craved and often begged her Mistress to be allowed to do. She loved being used by the men for their sexual lusts.

She felt the man whose penis was thrusting her throat stiffen a little as she did her best to keep her hands on the other two men.

"Fuck, this whore's gonna make me cum already." The man said.

Miley felt her head being pulled off the penis by her hair and she kept her mouth open as the man placed the head of his erect manhood just on the edge of her lips and he stroked himself to orgasm. Miley moaned in pleasure as she felt the warm, thick, fluid hit the back of her throat and the top of her mouth. She did her best to swallow as much as she could but a good portion of the fluid dribbled down her chin as another hard cock was forced in her mouth.

"Damn, I'm coming also." She heard another man say.

Miley tried to pull away from the penis in her mouth to catch that man's sperm in her mouth but the guy whose dick she was sucking would not let her go and she felt warm goo hit the side of her face and hair.

"Yeah cover the fucking slut with come." One man said.

"Damn, I love when this cunt comes to Tracy's parties. She is such a whore." Another said.

"Yeah I can't wait to fuck the bitch; we are going to fuck her pussy and ass so much she won't be able to walk for days." Yet another said as he laughed.

Miley did not care what they said about her, as a matter of fact it aroused her more and she soon had her first orgasm of the night with the man's fingers insider her. She gave off muffled cries of pleasure as she came but they gave her no rest and a third man came in her mouth. Miley knew before the night was over she would swallow lots of men's sex fluid and the gooey liquid would be all in her hair and cover her body and even sometimes a few came in her butt. She did not care and the thought of if even excited her more.

Miley found herself pulled roughly to her feet as the men made crude and vulgar comments about her as one bent her over, grabbed her arms and pulled them painfully behind her back and held her up bent over as he fucked her from behind. Her arms hurt a little but she did not care and she also knew they would bend and twist her in several various uncomfortable positions before they were done with her. Miley screamed out her pleasure as the man fucked her hard but her cries were soon cut off by another hard penis shoved in her mouth.

Miley knew they would continue to use her this way while some would orgasm and then move her to the bed and start on her again. There were only five men taking her now and some would leave as the night progressed only to be replaced by others. Men the young girl did not know or care to know, men who could be ugly or handsome or thin or fat, men with large penises or small one, none of that mattered to Miley; she just wanted to be used and degraded as much as possible. Her Mistress verbally tormented to shame her about taking on nine men at one time before, but Miley secretly hoped she could break that record sometime. She felt the man inside her pussy thrust hard and then pull out and soon Miley felt warm fluid splash on her butt and back as he came. While she wanted her sex filled again she did not fret about it too much as she was now led to the bed; her sex and butt and mouth would be filled with hard cocks all night.

The young pop star was placed on her stomach and she felt a hand reach under her and lift her butt up and then she cried out in a mixture of ecstasy and slight pain as her butt was penetrated and once again an erect dick was forced in her mouth. She accepted the sexual abuse with delight as the men continued to use her body over and over and would so for many hours to come.