Is that understood?”It was. Kogar apologized, first to me and then to Gogra. I dismissed him after that and then ordered everyone to mount up. It wa... then that I learned we had another problem.“Do you have a mount?” I asked her, seeing no other horse standing near us, except for our own animals.The young woman answered with a shake of her head. That just pissed me off even more.The fact was that the Horse People used one spot to bury their dead and that spot was across the plateau near where. Off with you now.“I think I’ll just get some straps first Miss, if I may.”The smiling maid went to a drawer, took out some evil-looking straps of hard thin leather, and approached me as I sat, nursing my wounded rear. “Come,” she coaxed, as one might address a pet-and then she indeed secured my neck in a pretty, ornate dog collar, attached to a leash which she held in her hand. I rose to my feet, sobbing brokenly. “ah please Miss, please…I tried, I did try…”“Not hard enough,” was the implacable. We weren't working out as a couple, so the breakup wasn't full of malice, but there was some grief on both ends. We did love each other; we just weren't in love with each other. I've been trying to date around in the last few months since we separated, but I haven't had much luck. I flirt with an old friend that I used to work with from before I moved and with a girl I used to date in high school. The friend is a huge flirt but isn't really interested, and the old girlfriend definitely isn't. This was a tender kiss.And so tender that Jill built the confidence to ask:"May I undress you?"The answer was the one that this last kiss suggested:"Yes. Please."But then Sally changed her answer:"Just... I mean... First, I want to see you naked."And Jill showed herself."My... Jill, I... You're gorgeous! I knew you would be beautiful, but... Wow!" Thanks, Sally."They kissed again. And Jill started to unbutton Sally's blouse.And Sally touched Jill's skin. She touched Jill's belly, and didn't.