”“I must see it later,” Arete said. “And ... can I ask...” She turned, her cape swishing. She chewed her gold knuckle, then pointed at my st...mp. “Was that lost in a duel?” Her eye shone with excitement and I felt my guts turn over as a tiny, sheepish smile spread across my face. Now that the duel was over and the red faced Hegemonic Knight was splattered at the bottom of a bottomless pit, her double-edged blade could be thought about with excitement, not fear-sweat. My hand reached up, touching. ..”“That about covers it,” said Sean. “Mickey is most concerned about you. She wants to place you into protective custody.”“I heard your answer to her on that subject. Thank you. What ideas do you have for the girls? You mentioned something about a meeting this morning.”“That reminds me,” Sean said as he grabbed his cell phone from the nightstand. “We need to figure out how to set different ringtones on our phones so we can tell which one is receiving a call. When you were checking on the girls. Then Corina said last time the rep from the shirt company helped her set everything up and he was a hunk. Corina said if he was helping her tonight she was thinking of letting him fuck her this time. I asked her what happened last time for her to think he would fuck her this time. Corina softly said he told her that one of the shirts they were setting up would look great on her. She said it was cute and she liked the shirt and she said he went and got a skirt and told her to put it on and see.. ''Who was it then?' Jim asked'You.' She replied softly. 'I am going back to bed. Do me a favour and close the door when you leave.''I take it that's a no for Perth in the holidays.' Jim said redundantly.-oOOo-'How is my darling little sister this evening?' Jade asked as Amy sat painting her fingernails later that day. 'Are we in a better mood now?''Fuck off Jade.' Amy said, barely looking up from the task at hand.'Now now, that's not very lady like.'Amy finally put the lid back on the polish.