. think it should be. It’s the partner, right, that sets the mood for the girl? That’s how things are properly done.”“Do you want to give me y...ur first time?” I asked, my heart squeezing in my chest.Philippa nodded, her hands squeezing my mind. “What’s the right way ... for me?”“Us,” I said. I swallowed. This was happening. My fantasies were coming to life. But I had to know she was the right one. “You are a virgin, yes? You have an intact hymen despite ballet?”“Yes,” she said. “I am lucky.. Along the right of way were telegraph poles and some of the crossarms still had those old glass insulators in clear or green and maybe the way the breaze blew the branches of the trees and the sunlight shining on or through those glass insulators made me think of the way the light of the room sparkles on Moms librarian style glasses and I found this to have a hold on me, possibly in the way the tiffany lamp shines on Mom's glasses as she reads the evening paper. Perhaps it that reason I started. .. your Highness. My apologies, ma'am!" The guard bowed."I'm not the one in need of your apologies, guard. Master Sergeant Hawke is an Imperial Ranger, and you will treat him with the respect due his rank and station. Is that clear?" She asked archly. I'd never seen her pull rank before, but damn!"Personally, I don't care, Hanelor. Words aren't going to change his opinion of a 'mongrel', even if that mongrel's mother is Cariana Windspire." I shrugged."M ... m ... my apologies, Ranger. I didn't. She'd almost forgotten how nice it was here with no one else tomake noises or be distracting. As Tim, she used to like being herealone from time to time. As Kim, she couldn't really remember aspecific moment when she had been afforded that luxury. A bit ofsolitude would be a welcomed break from the constant company she had tokeep and the lack of peace that seemed to go right along with it. Kimslowly mounted the stairs taking her time and thinking to herself that ahot bath would be very.