....Look at my hand, can’t you see my ring? ....Tyler is my husband and I love him very much.” Salve Gabrielle stretched her arms out and took As...ley’s left hand and felt for her ring and gently twisted it until it slipped off her finger and examined the large diamond ring. Ashley cried. “Please don’t take my wedding ring . . . Please . . . I love my husband . . . Please help me . . . ” Slave Gabrielle said. “I’m going to help you and if you love Tyler than you will cooperate with them so. But one thing for sure, each new cadet was determined tobecome a Vershang Master. The Vershang they practiced with wereunsharpened at this stage. But by the time they transferred to DIGA theywould be sharpened blades.Of course, many of the instructors that were present would betransferring to DIGA also. Those instructors were here each night helpingthem teach those who had never used a Vershang before.Breeze Lander stood smiling as he saw the dedication of these youngcadets. They were. Jenna kept glancing periodically at Jace but kept silent until it was near Jace’s bed time and asked if he wanted her to get him his medicine. “Yeah!” he said with relief knowing that he wouldn’t have to put up with the pain for a while. She walked off and returned with water and the two pills then sat back down while he gulped them down, said “good night”, and ran off to go to sleep.---The sun shined brightly on Jace’s face as he opened his eyes and toyed around with his mind to see if it. For a brief moment, she lost her grip and he leapt into her thoughts, seconds before she would have stepped out of the tub. Her body tensed as she closed her tear ducts from letting go more than that first drop, rolling down her cheek. Perhaps, her fingers even briefly trailed her tender parts, but she kept those fingers collared and chained. To deny herself pleasure, she felt, made her one with that universe that she tried harder and harder to blink, as the years rolled over. It simply would.