...Chapter One - The Postponed Anniversary SurpriseLinda sighed softly into her gag as she continued to press her nose tothe now-worn spot on the kitc...en wall. Behind her, dinner was in theoven. The smell of fresh bread wafted through to the den where LadyPatricia was knitting comfortably in the recliner. From her comfortableposition she was able to observe her well trained submissive standingquietly in her 'resting' place. That spot on the wall was Linda'sdefault location and activity when. Omar summarized the executioner’s proclamation for me, but I was still thinking about Ruya. I can’t imagine Saudi prisons are very nice, so at least that suffering had ended. But she hadn’t seen her little boy for years. I hadn’t seen Edwin in about a month and a half, and I found I couldn’t even allow myself to think about all those precious moments from his first year without choking up. I cry a little too easily anyway, although that had gotten a bit better of late, but it took effort to. ”Shavala hadn’t realized he’d known. Or had Katrin told him?“They had to be stopped,” she said. “I hate that they didn’t give us a choice, but we couldn’t let them hurt us or anyone else. I understood. The staff didn’t, but I think I can talk to it, teach it.”“Teach it?” Katrin said. “You should get rid of it!”“It’s not hurting me now, and it’s also helped me.”“Helped how?” Corec asked.“The room it was in, with the mushrooms and the moths—they were all dying. The staff helped me save them.”“The. I mean, it was kind ofcomforting to know what had caused the changes in my body, and that Iwasn't going to turn into some kind of freak or anything. And to tellthe truth, if the doctor had told me that there was this kind of "magicpill" that would turn me back into being all boy - instead of kind of amixture the way I am now - I'm not sure how I would have felt aboutthat. When Allison asked me that night how the appointment had gone, Ijust grunted, "Don't wanna talk about it."Now that I have my.