Tell me, any news of the haggling over Hannah’s dowry?” I asked Mother as I washed my hands and urged Mara to do so as well.“Not well, since you...must ask. Well, it’s good that you’re checking in on it. This is your betrothed of which we speak. You’re the one who’ll have to bed her. I am simply ... displeased at how they’re dragging their feet on a marriage that was arranged while your father was alive and well. What is the matter, no money left for the dowry? Did her father drink, gamble, and. When I got to her nipples, I rolled them roughly between my thumbs and fingers. As she opened her mouth and gasped in surprise, I locked my lips on hers for just a moment, then bit her lower lip.She moaned and arched her back. I attached my mouth to one nipple, then the other, sucking hard and scr****g them with my teeth. She was almost convulsing under my touch. I love controlling the arousal of my partners, and I decided to bring her back down before taking her any higher.I helped her remove. Soon there was far more kissing than drinking and the two girls lay on to the bed in each other’s arms. “We will be fine,” Chloe slurred. “Absolutely very fine,” Emily slurred in reply as she pinched Chloe’s still taut nipple adding, “Friends forever, spanked or not.” Outside as Nina and Jenifer walked back to the party Nina said, “Thanks so much for helping me sort Emily out back there Jen, but I don’t know how she will react when I next try to spank her.” Nina was already pensive. Jenifer. ”“We understand the details,” I thought out loud. “Words. Meanings. Descriptions. Always material things. The building and working a machine. A blade of grass. Even atoms and molecules. Things we can sense. See at the subatomic level. Watch work. As if the biological, the natural was just another sort of machine. Witnessing differentiation and causation in DNA. More and more understanding.“And yet can we ever understand how it all came to be? All us singular consciousnesses moving through the.