She just volunteered for the position and grew into it."Tanya looked at Lindsay and then looked back at me. "I'm getting confused here," she said. "Th... concubines on this planet are way too outgoing. I feel like I'm no longer in the Confederacy."Lindsay erupted in girlish giggles. "Oh, we're part of the Confederacy. But we definitely are our own little pocket of the universe. And we have very good owners."Gina looked up. "I'm going to tell Donna that you called her an owner."Lindsay just stuck. " Indeed, I hear these lands were ravaged by the plague. My chamberlain told me it wiped out half the village." William felt awkward as he didn't know what else to say. "Well, your luck is about to change." My Liege?"William stepped up to the vertical loom causing the two women to disperse like timid street dogs. His eyes lapped up the elegant floral patterns, which were warmly coloured with reds and ambers. Lightly brushing his fingers along the fabric, he nodded with satisfaction. "Fine work,. Whatever else they were, the Menconis were not stingy, and Julie's room was well-equipped, having a stereo, TV, and private phone line. Except for food, for which she as yet had no desire, there was no real need to leave her room. All day Monday, she found some way to pass the agonizing hours. Twice more, she retched into the toilet with nothing left to throw up. Afterward, she huddled in her bed until the shakes passed.What Julie needed more than anything was a friend, some one to whom she. After twenty minutes she began to wonder if she had perhaps mistaken the name of the café and looked again at the letter. NO. No mistake, but this was a long wait!Just as she was beginning to think something had gone terribly wrong with the old man's arrangements, a dishevelled man staggered into the café and came over to her, with the manager hot on his heels, obviously anxious to eject him. Before he could be cast back out into the increasingly busy street, he dropped a greasy and crumpled.
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