“Hi Penny, what can I do for you?”“Karen asked me to come and tell you that her phone isn’t working and she asked me to ask you to get someone...to fix it.”“Okay, just a sec.”That second turned into a couple of minutes as the receptionist picked up her phone and pressed a few buttons. She let it ring for ages before hanging up and saying, “Karen’s right, she would have answered that if it was working.”As she picked up the phone and pressed more buttons I turned and looked at the growing queue and. She always has you strip completely naked for paddling’s, rather thanjust baring the buttocks the way she does for the cane or strap. While Ifound both humiliating, there was something much worse about standingnaked before her, your heart trembling as you wait patiently andnervously as she readies herself--always a big production where she sitsdaintily and fidgets for a bit, smoothing her skirt across her lap, andfussing a great deal, and then stands up and recommences the entireprocess again. “But, after he came home, I stopped messing around, well, with most of the guys. A couple of them kept coming around.” She continued her story. “After a while I stopped altogether, and I have been mostly faithful, except for our preacher, who’s got the cutest little ass, and the paper boy.” I threw my head back as I laughed at her profession of faithfulness. “The paper boy?” I barked “How old is he?” she put her finger on her chin as if she were thinking deeply “I’m not really sure, but that. Wait! I am detecting a weak trace of the metal our life boxes are made of! Now accelerating to detected signal!" "Wait!" Lucie suddenly shouted stopping the wind up of the hyper-dive engines. "We have to remember what the emperor said. We have to proceed carefully. Many boxes were found to be contaminated. Begin a full scan as soon as we are within sensor range." "Compliance Miss Hartwell, now moving closer to the signal. As of yet I am not detecting any..." Suddenly a myriad of alarms were.