’ His voice was soft, but the words hit the woman as solidly as a slap across her face. ‘Because I am soft, because I am weak,’ she reasoned, v...nom lacing her voice. ‘Because you are not a barbarian,’ he replied, shrugging helplessly. ‘You cannot know that they would not accept me,’ she said, anger pushing her voice past the lump rising in her throat. ‘I will go with you, and if they shun me…’ She let the rest of the thought hang in the air, as much because she didn’t know what she would do as. “All right, Slavsin, on the table here so I can feed you this straw.” Everyone crowded around to witness the latest display. A second later, Phil shook the aerosol can. “Okay, now strike your most heroic pose.” With that, he began spraying the foam across a wide area, reaching around to cover each angle so none were left exposed.Slavsin’s form was immediately apparent, his wings spread majestically, rearing back, his neck extended and the straw down his throat as his mouth was open in a full. Bishop who was nodding andsmiling behind the two men. She then took Karen over to it and showedher how to operate it."Thank you." Karen smiled warmly before turning her attention to Kat."Kat come over here." Once Kat was over she looked her in the eyes. "Iknow this is something you do not want to do, but I want you to put onyour best poker face, then read this carefully to yourself. When you areready let me know." Karen handed her a hand written page.Matt walked over to Deb leaning over to. The lovely Halima Khan caught my eye the first time I saw her at school. I was heading to the campus library to print something and I saw this marvelous heart-shaped derriere bending over the library steps. The derriere in question belonged to a six-foot-tall, curvaceous and sinfully sexy, golden brown-skinned and dark-eyed Somali sister in a long skirt and hijab who bent down to tie her sneakers. Man, it was love at first sight and I hadn’t even seen the lady’s face. Truth be told, I’d fallen.