It’s not important.” She couldn’t talk about that with an outsider—not even with Katrin. “It still sounds like you feel guilty.”“No, not...guilty,” Katrin said, “but the three of us spend a lot of time together. Doesn’t it feel like something’s missing?”“Sometimes, maybe,” Shavala admitted. She’d grown closer to Corec and Katrin than to anyone else besides her family. It would be nice if there was more to it.“You should come to our tent tonight.”Shavala bit her lower lip, then nodded. Before she. The door shut behind us. “Okay, now what’s this about?”Edwards looked at me. I said, “We’ve found something that could be serious. We’re trying to check everyone we can, but it has to do with FEV, the Forced Evolutionary Virus. I need to scan the three of you to see if you’re infected, please.”They all looked startled, but with the intercom system from upstairs now saying the Vault was under quarantine procedures, quickly complied. I gave a sigh of relief when the scanner came back negative.. At the next party, Betty led the two slavegirls around on their leashes. Each was completely naked other than for their collars. They stood slightly behind her on either side as she talked with others and they knelt on either side of her when she sat. She was very proud of her beautiful girls and knew that she must be the envy of everyone at the party. Joe had to satisfy himself with just tagging along and chatting with people.Mandy was at the party and she was none too pleased that Kathleen. Her eyes stare into the tiny mirror, at the shoes she knows are so very expensive, feeling her confidence grow and grow. She needs to prove herself worthy, she thinks to herself. “Walk for me,” he tells her, turning her around. He guides her forward with one hand, for just a few steps, as though the beginning of a dance, before he lets her go. Finding her feet at last, she steps gracefully forward, pirouetting on the spot to look back at him with a smile. She twirls around the store, her hair.