It’s a lawless place. The rules are decided by whoever brought the most guns that day. You do not go into Gauchito alone or unarmed. I was told it w...uld be good for me to see how ‘inferior’ the other races were. How they were rabble who fought amongst themselves and would be no challenge to our superiority in the upcoming race war. I would go into taverns with the men and we’d get drunk and they’d start fights. Fights that they tended to lose. To those ‘inferior races.’ Who could get along. Very soon that cocksure bastard would nolonger stand between me and reclaiming my girl.During my early tests I'd discovered to my good fortune that I didn'tneed to carry the tome around with me. But unfortunately, any paperfrom which I invoked a spell from the tome crumbled to dust. Takingthe paper where I carefully written the spell, I looked across thestreet at that smug asshole from my hiding place. Unable to suppressa grin, I began reciting the spell I knew would be changing his lifein ways. I had called Molly to tell her my flight had been cancelled that Friday night and I wouldn't get home until Saturday afternoon. She had told me she was going to the bar that evening after work with Shawna and not to worry. She said she didn't expect anything to happen and she would probably still be a ‘virgin' when I got back. "Well, Shawna invited Zack to go with us. I assumed she was going to do him that night because of the way she and Jackie always talked about him and I knew she had done. He struck me, he did! I am the daughter of a Lord, Captain, and I expect to be treated like one! Now, where is the doctor?" The captain's face grew dark. "He struck you? I shall flog him myself for that!" I felt pleased at that and smiled. "The doctor?" I asked again. The captain looked at me for a long while without saying anything. Impatience railed at me to speak but something in his eyes held me back. I waited. His voice was slow and controlled, without emotion. I felt the truth of.