Author: Darko Dan {darkodan666@yahoo.com}
Title: The Darkness Parts 01 - 05
Part: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Summary: Explore the dark lives of a few Indians as the men push
the boundaries of depraved and forced sex for the women who are
not given a choice
Keywords: bd, blackmail, inc, nc, ped, rape, reluc, sad, sm,
tort, ws




Part 1

"Eat it bitch!"

Seema gasped for air in the few seconds of respite she got. Then
again the man's hand was behind her head as he pushed her mouth
back onto the asshole of the man in front. Her nose was squashed
against the sweaty smelly balls of the man and her lips into the
wet hole below. Wet from her own spit. Seema knew what she had to
do even though she was hardly able to breathe and stuck her
tongue out and licked the butthole pressed into her face. She
tried pushing her tongue into the ass and could get the weird
taste from within. She dared not stop though, the punishment
would be worse.

Her eyes widened in fear as she realized the only asshole that
was getting attention was not the one in her mouth alone. She
could feel something poking into virgin butthole. She began to
fight and moan into the wet sloppy ass shoved in her face but she
was held down.

She heard the men laugh as the object at her butthole pushed in.
Seema felt the pain flooding her as her rosebud forcibly expanded
to accommodate the invading object...

"Mom!" she heard.

Confused, Seema opened her eyes. `Not again' she thought...

"Mom, I'm leaving for classes! Bye!" chirpy happy girl's voice.

`Shit, what's wrong with me' thought Seema. "Bye Prathi!" she
shouted back.

It had happened again. Ever since she had started watching those
disgusting videos online she had found herself uncontrollably
fantasizing and daydreaming these perverted thoughts. She would
just drift off into another world...

Seema got up from the couch and realized with shame that her
panties were soaked. `How am I being turned on by these things?!'
Feeling disgusted at herself she decided to get out of her sweaty
clothes.

Once in the bedroom she stripped completely and was about to put
on another set of clothes when her own reflection caught her eyes
in the mirror. Looking back at her was a homely mother and a
beautiful woman. She stood 5'6" tall. Her wheatish colored skin
glowed and her round face had great features. She was approaching
her 39th birthday and having good genes and just one child had
helped her retain much of her beauty. If anything as she aged she
had only grown in the right places. A closer inspection of her
body however revealed a new angle. Her 36D breasts were full and
sagged only enough to make them feel natural. Her nipples looked
positively lewd - dark, long and pointy. And sensitive she knew.
Her 30" stomach jutted out just enough and her hips flared
sideways. Below was the most glorious apple shaped 42" ass that
somehow reminded her of all the pornstars she had been seeing
recently. Her thighs were large and soft like the rest of her
shapely full body. She realized that the patch between her legs
was glistening. Almost unknowingly she touched the wetness and
shuddered realizing how turned on she was. She pushed further
inside through her healthy pubic hair and touched soft pussy
lips. Her legs became weak for a second. Loathing herself she
turned and looked at the computer in the room.

The computer was an amazing invention of man. Seema herself
enjoyed spending a lot of her plentiful free time browsing the
web. Until a month back when she discovered the world of internet
pornography. With her husband away on a project and her daughter
at class - It was a hopeless journey for her. Her initial
curiosity quickly turned into masturbation sessions and before
she knew it she was hooked. Just waiting for her daughter
Pratiksha to leave before logging online and streaming sex. Much
to her shock and disgust she was most turned on by videos in
which women were humiliated and abused. She couldn't stop
picturing herself as the girl taking the humiliation. With equal
amounts of shame and horniness she would furiously masturbate
herself. Her crude and raw orgasms were the best she had but also
the ones that left her feeling debased and unwomanly. Which only
turned her on further.


Part 2

Arjun was keenly observing the mature woman getting it off in the
apartment opposite to his. The poor lady didn't realize that
someone had occupied this apartment and she could be seen in all
her glory through the window. Arjun chuckled as she lifted one
leg and rested it on the window sill to have deeper and better
access to her pussy. The way she had spread her legs, Arjun could
clearly see her fingers desperately fingering her love hole. He
could also see her contorted face and the look of pure
unadulterated lust on it. There was one more thing Arjun could
see - everything on the lady's computer.

Arjun was a 28 year old successful entrepreneur who was heading a
quickly growing tech business. He specialized in providing custom
network solutions to medium sized enterprises. With his new
income, he had moved a month back into this new apartment. Once
he realized the treat that he could see every day, it didn't take
him long to decide what he wanted to do in life besides his work
and girlfriends. It was fairly simple for him to hack into the
network and computer used by Seema. `Seema Roshini Shankar - nice
name' he had thought. As Arjun began to realize the preferences
of Seema, a plan began to form in his head. A plan that would
give Arjun much pleasure through Seema's downfall.

The girl in the video clearly wasn't really enjoying herself.
That was clear from the way she was crying with her tears flowing
down ruining her makeup. She had ample reason to cry too. Seema
looked with fascination as the man holding the girl's hair shoved
his cock even further into the crying girl's throat. She started
gagging and fighting. Oh how that turned on Seema. Her pace of
fingering increased to a frantic one as she pictured herself with
a man forcing his cock down her throat. The thought turned her on
so much she was close to coming. And then suddenly in the video,
the man entered his cock all the way into the young girl's throat
as he came. Her eyes bulged out as she furiously tried to get
away from the monster dick in her mouth. The suffering of the
girl did it for Seema - she came convulsing in the chair, moaning
in ecstasy as the shameful orgasm washed over her. The waves hit
her hard and after what seemed like hours she leaned her head
back.

Immediately she thought about her beloved loving husband Shankar
who was away in the north on his business project. How he treated
her like a princess and how heartbroken he would be to know about
her dirty dark side.

However right then, in his office at Delhi, Shankar had no time
to think about his wife. That was mostly because of the hot 34
year old maid at office hoping up and down on his erect dick.

"Oh Savitha, ride me harder!"

Savitha heeded his words and began sliding her pussy up and down
his cock even faster. She was a widowed mother from a low class
family who lived near the city. Being blessed with decent looks
and a sexy figure, Savitha had quickly earned the status of the
office whore. For a small amount of money she would handle stress
and needs of the men at work. And of course being a sex crazed
widow she herself genuinely enjoyed all the sex she got. She was
readily available and excited, only some men were overly rough
with her. She knew that her status was just that of a
masturbation device for the men. She was okay with it. The money
for her alcohol addiction and other luxuries came easy this way.
As one employee had told her during the first time she had a
session with three men at once -"You take care of our needs and
we will take care of yours". Right now she was busy taking care
of Shankar's dick. She knew he was close. Bending forward she fed
him here tits which were flying around. He immediately sucked
them into his mouth and started cumming. Steadily, she continued
riding him as he moaned and shot his cum inside her. From
previous experience she knew that the employees didn't appreciate
it if the cum leaked out and stained their clothes. She carefully
lifted herself of the spent dick covered her pussy with her palm.
She smiled to herself when she realized it was the third load she
had already taken that morning.

She reached out to the tissue box to clean herself up as Shankar
zipped up. On the table were a picture of his beautiful wife and
daughter. She laughed in her head as she walked away
straightening her petticoat and stuffing her boobs back in her
blouse. Others were waiting. She was after all the office whore.

Shankar watched the whore walk out of his office. He loved this.
The ability to just fuck and forget. None of the "love making"
non-sense he would have to do with his wife. Just pump, release
and move on. The focus being on the act of sex and not an
expression of love.

At the age of 45 many would think that the big man would be only
worried about his family, especially since he had a daughter. And
he did ensure they had nothing to complain about. But he also
knew that family alone didn't satisfy him. Shankar had always
resorted to prostitutes and affairs to keep him truly satisfied
behind the backs of his family and society. He enjoyed a variety
of perversions with his group of equally twisted friends, Rahul
and Sohail. In fact it was there interest in divergent sex that
built their bond.

As Shankar watched the swaying ass of Savitha disappear out his
door he knew he wasn't done with her or his sexual needs for the
day. Not that he was going to fuck her again. Along with Rahul
and Sohail, Shankar had landed them a very great deal with the
sex-crazed greedy alcoholic Savitha. In exchange for twenty
thousand rupees, Savitha would be delivering a very special gift
to them tonight at their lodge - her innocent and pure 14 year
old daughter Rashmi for their unrestricted use and abuse
throughout the night.


Part 3

"Ding!" went the doorbell.

Seema head popped up from where she was resting it after her
intense orgasm. She had dozed off for a few hours. As she fully
recovered her senses, she realized and that was she was lewdly
sitting with her legs spread wide apart and her pussy open into
the air. Ashamed, she closed her legs and heard the stifled moans
of the girl in the porno still playing on her computer. The girl
had her eyes wide open in fear as the masked man with her was
placing a cucumber the size of her arm at her vagina. Seema
groaned at the scene getting turned on again.

"Ding!" went the doorbell again.

She quickly closed the windows on her computer and threw a
nightgown on herself before heading out to open the door. She
opened the door partially intending to dismiss her unwanted guest
as quickly as possible. She was horny and wanted to get back to
her computer. `Even my hands aren't washed' she thought.

"Courier ma'am" said the very obvious courier-delivery boy
outside. He was holding a small envelope. `Weird' she thought.
Nothing was expected.

"Are you Seema Shankar?"

"Yes, that's me"

She opened the door fully and accepted the courier but then the
delivery boy realized he didn't have a pen for her to sign the
receipt. Seeing him scratch his head, Seema asked him to wait a
moment and went into the house to pick up a pen from the side
table. As she searched for a working one she had an uneasy
feeling that she was being watched. She turned her head to see
that the delivery boy was intensely checking her out.

She had forgotten that she was wearing a sheer nightgown. It
didn't help that the sun was directly behind her as she bent
forward because from where he was standing, the delivery boy
could clearly see her big melons hanging below her chest and her
obscene ass protruding out from her body. Seema turned red as she
realized this, grabbed a pen and quickly headed to sign the
receipt. Her had a weird lusty smile on his face while collecting
the paper from her and was unashamedly checking out her boobs.
Embarrassed Seema quickly shut the door and thought what an idiot
she was to not be more careful.

Her eyes fell on the package she received. Curiously she opened
it. There was absolutely nothing special about it. Inside was
just a black pen drive. Seema was confused. Why would anyone send
her this. Could it be some virus?. But her curiosity got the
better of her and she decided to check it out. She went to her
computer and plugged in the drive. There was simply one video
file named "Welcome". `Weird' she thought and opened it.

There were two legs split wide open. The woman in the video had
three fingers deep in her pussy and was moaning loudly. She was
clearly very excited. Her face showed signs of the deepest
ecstasy. With shock and fear Seema realized that it was her own
face she was looking it. It was a video of her masturbating in
front of the computer. Seema's head began spinning in confusion
and fear as the video suddenly changed to another day. She
realized with shame as she recognized that day. It was a day she
had seen a video of a monster cock destroy a little girl and
Seema desperately wanted to feel a cock. In her desperation she
had resorted to a large and healthy banana. Seema watched
paralyzed as she kept shoving the fruit into her pussy screaming
out in pleasure. And then came the most disgusting act Seema had
ever performed. Aping the girl in the video, Seema took out the
banana from her pussy wet with her own juices and inserted it in
her mouth and sucked it with her eyes closed before inserting it
all the way back in her vagina. Seema watched as she convulsed
into an orgasm. Immediately started another video of yet another
day. In panic Seema realized that the video was over an hour long
and had several of her masturbation sessions. Just then her phone
beeped and vibrated.

Unknown - Hello Seema Slut. Enjoying the video? I certainly
enjoyed preparing it.

`What the hell was happening' though Seema in fear. Why was the
number of this person not displayed? Seema felt her heart beating
like never before. `My family my honor my life my daughter!' She
decided to reply. With trembling hands she typed.

Seema - Who are you?
Unknown - An admirer. For now. I will be many things to you in
the future though.
Seema - Why are you doing this to me? What do you want? Please
delete this video I am a mother I beg you.
Unknown - Oh Seema we have hardly gotten started. Do not beg now,
the time for that comes later.
Seema - Please delete this video. I will give you any amount of
money. Please I beg you!
Unknown - Seema I do not need money. I need some other things.
Seema - Like what? Anything please I have a daughter I this
cannot be released! Please I will catch your feet.
Unknown - I am glad you brought up releasing for multiple
reasons! Because this video is currently on a timed email to
every student of John Silver Bangalore Public School, including
your daughters. In an hour's time the email will automatically be
sent.
Seema - NO PLEASE I BEG YOU I WILL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT PLEASE!
Unknown - very well. I have a simple task for you which if
performed to my satisfaction, I will disable the mail.

Seema had a sick feeling in her stomach about where this was
headed. But she knew she had no choice. As she replied back to
her blackmailer in the affirmative she convinced herself that she
was doing this for her husband and daughter.

But far away in Delhi, her husband was very excited unaware of
his wife's plight. Infact a daughter was involved too. It just
wasn't his daughter. He grinned at his pals Rahul and Sohail as
they sipped beer in the cottage they rented. They heard the cab
stop and then depart after dropping its passengers.

"Where are you taking me Amma? Why have you dressed me up like
this" It was a sweet beautiful voice. The men instantly began to
feel the blood flow to their groins.

"Just shut up and come with me Rashmi!" snarled Savitha.

Rahul opened the door for the two smiling gleefully. The men
didn't even notice Savitha. Their eyes were all on Rashmi's
petite and pretty body, dressed in her revealing sari.

"Welcome Rashmi!" he said and held her hand and made the shocked
girl sit in between Shankar and Sohail. He set her down grasping
her naked waist much to the discomfort of young 14 year old
Rashmi. She was repelled by the smell of alcohol and scared by
the looks of the two strange men eyeing her sitting next to her
on either side a little too close for comfort. She looked
pleadingly at her mother only to see Savitha move aside and
accept a package from Rahul happily.

The deal was simple. In exchange for money, the men would have
Rashmi for the night. As their property. Poor Rashmi had no idea
that her life was never going to be same again. It was the night
of her brutal gang rape and degradation at the hands of three
merciless perverts older than her dad would have been.


Part 4

Rashmi had no more tears left to cry as she lay on the corner of
the washroom floor in a fetal position hugging her knees onto her
tattered breasts. She shivered when she felt the semen leaking
out of her hurting vagina and ass. Her sore mouth was still
tasting of all the cum. There didn't seem to be a part of her
body that wasn't paining after the brutal encounter she had been
through. Her body had marks of extreme abuse and drying cum
coated her cum and hair.

She thought of how that very morning she had spent with her
friends happy and merry. She thought of how she had taken care of
petite but beautiful body. But mostly she thought of the previous
few hours that had changed life forever.


Neither the men nor her own mother had bothered to tell her
anything about what was to happen. It was if she was just a
commodity. Which is exactly what she had felt like when the
realization of her mother selling her to these men hit her. The
two men sitting on either side of her had kept their bottles
aside and started feeling her up. Her attempts to fight them of
were vain. They were big bulky men and each man used one arm to
hold her in place forcefully while molesting her with the other.
Tears began flowing down her cheeks. One man suddenly caught her
neck and turned her crying face towards him. He had the most evil
smile she had ever seen. He leaned forward and licked up her
tears and laughed. In fear she cried harder and the man continued
to lick up her tears. Meanwhile the other man was squeezing her
breasts over her sari blouse. Her pallu had been removed
immediately. Out of the corner of her eye she saw her mother and
the third man drinking. `How could my own mother do this....'

Her thought was interrupted as one man pinched down on her left
nipple hard. It burned like crazy and Rashmi screamed out loud.
Both men started laughing and started pinching down on bother her
nipples. She screamed and struggled in pure agony. The man
stopped momentarily but there was no relief for her as they
ripped off her blouse and bra making her topless. Before a
shocked Rashmi could react, they had held her arms in place
again. Then they resumed their pinching but now directly on her
nipples. The men twisted it and pulled it as if it were a toy.
Rashmi howled and shook in pain crying hysterically. She felt no
pain could be greater. That was immediately proven wrong as one
man bit down on her nipple hard, instantly causing the skin to
break and bleed. Rashmi felt like her nipple was being eaten off
as the man began chewing the nipple in his mouth. She screamed
even harder.

Her mom and the third man laughed at her misery. One of her
assailants called out to the third man.

"Rahul, can we get started with this slut already?" he bellowed
She watched as Rahul stood up and nodded "Yes let's do this
Shankar"
Instantly Rashmi started fighting again as Shankar and the other
man began tearing off her clothes - her petticoat and panties.
Once that was done, Shankar carried a crying fighting Rashmi into
the bedroom and tossed her into the bed. Frantically naked Rashmi
looked around the room only to realize the door was the only way
out. Through it entered Rahul and the other man along with her
now drunk mom.

As she tried to preserve her modesty with her hands the three men
stripped. For the first time in her life Rashmi laid eyes on a
penis. In shame she looked away. Everyone else laughed. As she
kept her eyes tightly closed she heard the sounds of wet heavy
sucking and licking.

She opened her eyes and the sight shocked her. Her mother Savitha
was on her knees between Shankar and Rahul sucking their dicks
hungrily. She was sucking them like she loved it and in between
she would also lick their balls. Soon both men were erect and
Rashmi looked in fear at the erect 7" cocks pointing at her now.

"Sohail, you monster your turn now" Savitha said greedily. Rashmi
watched as her mom moved and settled down in front of Sohail and
started paying attention to his genitals. As he began to harden
Savitha really struggled with his cock. Rashmi looked on in
horror as the 9" monster as thick as her wrist rose to its full
glory. Her mom, tired after stretching her mouth so much, sat
aside.

Now all three horny turned on men and their big cocks looked at
Rashmi, so defenseless on the bed. It was going to be a slaughter
everyone knew it. No words were spoken as Rahul and Sohail came
forward and forced apart her legs and hands and held her down.

Shankar had not seen a prettier picture ever. Sweet innocent
crying fighting Rashmi helplessly spread open to him with her
pussy lips looking so young and tender. And so unready for the
assault it was going through. Savitha had promised the men her
daughter was a virgin. Her bleeding nipple only accented the
picture.

Shankar wasted no more time. Rashmi continued her pointless
struggle as she felt Shankar slide over her and place a hard knob
over her virgin pure vagina. She could feel the dick wet from her
mother's saliva. She could see the look of evil in Shankar's
eyes. She thought of her marriage and how it was her husband who
was supposed to be lovingly doing this. But instead here she was
about to be raped by a man who bought her from her mother. She
had no more time to think as Shankar shoved in. It was the most
painful feeling ever. He had not been slow or careful; the
bastard had shoved the whole seven inches into the small girl's
virgin pussy tearing aside her hymen. Rashmi howled like a beast
and even the strong men holding her found it difficult to hold
her down. Her pussy immediately began bleeding around the cock
forced into her.

But Shankar didn't fuck her. He had shoved in and stood still. He
then flipped over onto his back so that Rashmi who was impaled on
his cock was now on top of him. Before Rashmi realized what was
happening, he had pushed his hips upward in turn making her ass
jut into the air. While Shankar was raping away her virginity,
Savitha had oiled up Sohail monster dick. The same dick which was
now pressed into her asshole. Rashmi forgot all about the pain in
her body and pussy and began pleading the men to spare her rear
end.

"No please, Not there, no please I beg you no aaAARGGHHH...
UGGHHHAARRRRRR!!"

Sohail's dick hurt most women's pussy. It was in no way meant to
penetrate a petite girl's asshole. That was perhaps why Savitha
had an amused expression of disbelief on her face as she watched
inch after inch of his thick cock slide into her daughter's
resisting bleeding butt hole.


Part 5

Rashmi's screams hurt the ear. It was a scream of wild guttural
pain. As Sohail's monster cock sunk into her violated asshole, it
was forced open to a size it was never meant to. Rashmi could
feel her asshole tear. The fact that right below Shankar was
balls deep in her no longer virgin pussy didn't help at all.
Rashmi was thrashing about like a wild animal and only the brute
strength of the two men could keep her in her place - impaled on
their cocks about to be violently raped.

Sohail was so huge for her poor opening that he could only insert
half his cock in her. Then gripping her hips firmly, Sohail began
slowly pumping in and out of her asshole. Sensing the movement
Shankar began to do the same in her pussy. However the slow
pumping lasted very little- quickly it turned to violent painful
thrusts as Rashmi felt as if two hot iron rods were being pushed
into her holes over and over again. Through her pain filled eyes
she saw that her drunken mother had gotten naked and was riding
Rahul's dick on the other side on the bed. It was a beautiful
sight as the mother rode a man's penis while her daughter was
being raped in both her virgin holes by monster cocks.

Rashmi continued screaming throughout the rape. It only served to
keep a tempo for the two men fucking her. Suddenly she felt
Sohail pull out of her. Her asshole stretched outward and his
dick freed from her blood and juice coated hole with a pop.
Although still in immense pain, Rashmi had a moment of relief.
Only a moment though as an immediate replacement came in the form
of Rahul's dick. Wet with her mother's pussy juice, Rahul put the
whole of his cock in her asshole and quickly joined Shankar's
pussy fucking pace. Her screams of pain resumed their earlier
force. Suddenly Rahul reached and grabbed her beautiful long hair
from behind like gripping a thick rope in his fist and jerked her
head behind. A high pitched cry came out of her mouth as Rashmi
felt her hair was about to be ripped off. Rahul kept pulling till
her back was painfully bent backwards and her tender breasts were
hanging in front of her. Shankar didn't waste the chance and took
a mouthful of her tit in his mouth, biting down with his teeth
hard. Two drops of blood flowed down her breast onto her stomach
as Rahul and Shankar got into a sort of tug of war with her body.
Rashmi's head was clouded with pain but she realized her vision
of the ceiling was suddenly cut out by the gigantic cock in front
of her. Sohail grabbed her jaw with his huge palm so she couldn't
shut her mouth and inserted his thick organ into the warm wet
mouth. Rashmi felt like puking not just because of the penis in
her mouth, but also because she could taste her own ass juice and
blood on the dick and the smell in her nose. As Sohail began
fucking her mouth with his dirty cock, widening it painfully,
Rashmi was actually going to puke as he gagged her throat with
his cock.

Her legs spread wide, her hands gripping a beer
bottle-turned-dildo whose neck she was shoving in and out of her
wet leaking pussy, Savitha watched the triple penetration rape of
her previously pure and innocent daughter. She watched as the
three men fucked and hurt her harder as they approached their
orgasms. Then she witnessed her poor daughter's eyes wide open as
the three men grunted and came in her mouth, pussy and asshole.
The three men unceremoniously pulled out and dump her body, and
got out of bed to cool themselves off cheering each other.
Savitha smiled and went to them with her mouth ready to taste the
different flavors of cum and her daughter's various juices as she
prepared them for round two.

Rashmi silently cried as she felt cum ooze out of her holes. One
look below frightened her as she saw her tits bleeding heavily
marked with teeth and blood colored cum spill out of her bottom.
There was blood and cum on the sheet too. Her mouth still had the
sick tasting fluid in it. And her body flooded in pain. But she
only had a little while to sob as her experienced mothers had
quickly got the men hard again.

She went through a similar session albeit with different men at
different openings. Drained of energy she could only really move
as an especially painful shove, bite or slap was felt.

The men had then dumped her in the bathroom on the floor, and
left her. She could her laughter, including mothers and the sound
of more bottles opening.

Rashmi had no more tears left to cry as she lay on the corner of
the washroom floor in a fetal position hugging her knees onto her
tattered breasts. She shivered when she felt the semen leaking
out of her hurting vagina and ass. Her sore mouth was still
tasting of all the cum. There didn't seem to be a part of her
body that wasn't paining after the brutal encounter she had been
through. Her body had marks of extreme abuse and drying cum
coated her mouth.

She thought of how that very morning she had spent with her
friends happy and merry. She thought of how she had taken care of
petite but beautiful body. But mostly she thought of the previous
few hours that had changed life forever.

But she was suddenly brought back to reality as her mother
stepped into the bathroom.

"Mom, please take me back home.. Please..." she croaked
hopelessly to the very same person who had betrayed her.

All she heard was the laughter of men in reply as the three of
them entered the washroom too. Rashmi realized that all of them
including her mom were naked.

"Go for it slut" "Show your daughter her place!" they exclaimed

Savitha stepped over her daughter and stood with a leg on either
side of her. Her broken girl looked up at her open pussy. The
pressure had been building in her bladder for a long time with
the amount she had drunk. Bending her knees slightly, she let go.
A heavy stream shot out of her cunt and onto her daughter below.
She used her fingers and hips to completely shower Rashmi with
her piss. She wondered how much she had drunk as she continued
peeing on her daughter's body now completely drenched in piss.
She stepped forward and bent a bit more and pissed directly onto
Rashmi's face and watched her defeated daughter struggle around a
bit.

Once she was done, the men had all clapped and then they all left
Rashmi alone it the washroom. The physically and mentally
battered Rashmi heard the door latch from outside and the lights
go off before she fainted.