" Jason put a hand on her arm as he regained his breath, then turned to look at me."What's going on in your evil mind?" I'm just thinking out loud, bu... consider this ... most sex toys are of the handheld variety—vibrators, dildos, clamps, and so on. At the other end of the spectrum you've got rather ugly machines that tend to be noisy, not all that safe to operate, and are usually something that was cobbled together from parts of a power tool." Okay ... so?" So what if we design a collection of. Where are the checks and balances?" Nevertheless, those are my conditions," Deathbringer declared with finality. "Black Rose, do you accept the conditions?" Yes, Lord Deathbringer, I do and I shall," Black Rose stated with the same solemn finality."The dispensation only lasts until the child is old enough to draw Black Rose," Dao added. "At that point it will no longer be required and Black Rose will revert to the law." We concur," Deathbringer replied, speaking for both swords."So it has been. I decided to risk everything for her and picked up my phone for a ‘booty call.’The risk was huge. If I failed to ‘bed her,’ she would never talk to me, and my girlfriend would surely break up. But I was infatuated. I had to take the plunge. I typed “what’s up” and paused. The time was just past midnight. What if she didn’t read the text message till morning.I’d be screwed with on the way to recall the sent message. It was now or never! I had to know her response immediately. I deleted the typed. With a nod, the elf jogged off, presumably to go get Kallian's family.A bunch of the elves who'd been watching us approached cautiously, greeting Kallian with enthusiasm even as they stared at us with barely concealed suspicion. It didn't take long before a familiar red-headed elf came running – Shianni, Kallian's cousin. The two women hugged, both crying, and then pulled a smiling Soris into the embrace when he showed up. They talked quickly, Shianni's dirty looks morphing to begrudging.