now , lying here in the house on the shore of kashwakamak lake , she wondered what had happened to the tearless , eerily calm blonde girl who had told them about her brother barry and barry 's friends-young men who had clearly felt a woman was just a life-support system for a cunt and that branding was a perfectly just punishment for a young woman who felt more or less okay about fucking her brother but not her brother 's goodbuddies .