I put the videos aside, since the magazine didn't want them and went to work on the still shots. I probably could make four or five salable sets from ...hem, perhaps even six if I was careful with the cropping and touch-ups. I quickly selected enough to satisfy the magazine that had sent me the model and put the others aside for now.I was pretty close to finalizing that set when the bell rang. I knew it was my next appointment, Traci, and since she had been to the studio an even dozen times. I took Lori's hand and gently squeezed, “I’m not complaining, honey, but have you really put everything behind you, or are you just putting on a front for me?" I asked, "Be honest!”Lori satisfied face morphed into a soft smile, “I’m fine, baby, Mistress Katrina and I have talked several times this week, and she has really helped me get a handle on things,” she replied.I gave her a questioning look asking, “Is that why you played those videos Wednesday night, to test me, because of something. . others found their way in. Sometimes the others were handy ... he needed a frenchman, a Devils Island Convict, for a play ... one showed up.He needed an inconvenient Siberian internment camp guard, an ignorant fool, the Russian had the proper qualifications ... and an interesting accent.A high school play demanded a villain ... the one pulled from the many was so villainous the second appearance on stage he was soundly boo'ed by the audience ... that one took weeks to stuff back inside .... She probed me about my work, my hopes, my career prospects. It was the most natural conversation. I was lost in her and when, at about 10 I went to the toilet I looked into my own eyes in the mirror and saw a girl in love. She was, dammit, so totally genuine. I took my knickers off and put them in my handbag. I knew she’d want that and now I wanted it too. ‘Can you stay for a while? You don’t have to get to work at some ridiculously early hour tomorrow?’ In the lift she held my hand. We got to.