As I was admiring this lovely creature in front of me, and bemoaning the fact that in a moment or two she would be gone forever, the steward came up a...d asked where we were headed. She gave him the name of her hotel and my brain scrambled for a minute. He turned to me and tried to contain a smirk as I stammered "ummm, errr, I'm headed to the same place!" She looked right at me and giggled, winked one long lashed eye, and said "Well, I guess we're sharing a cab now."We loaded our luggage into. Sashafigured that Ray would cane the woman first, but she was wrong. Ray justcouldn't wait. She had 50 lashes coming, and he wanted to get a start onthem. Sasha's eyes opened wide when she saw him grab the "special" whipfrom the table in front of her. This meant that she was next. But worse,the whip was not just any whip. It was reserved for the worst offenders. Acouple of years ago, the whip had been special ordered from Australia ,where everyone knew that the workmanship was superior,. ”I put my dressing gown on her, it almost wrapped around her twice.“You can’t go back to your cabin.”“Ah, rising damp is it?”“Very, more like dripping wet from the ceiling.”“I can dry it off.”“Really? Just like you could, you know, transport me, and all that bloody cold water, to your room?”“Something like that. It’s unpredictable, magic. I could dry it but as soon as I dropped off to sleep it might all get wet again, or by gathering up all the moisture and sending it somewhere else, like. ”“I fired the other two on the spot, and later found out that the person in the dress was a guy who had been hired as a decorator and the other guy was a salesman. The one in the dress had not advised us that he was transgender, and he may just have been cross-dressing. It turned out that both of them were being coerced by the Manager, even though it appears they swung that way anyway, but didn’t like involuntary relationships. I gave the Manager the option of being fired or retiring. He chose.