"?OK, I'm outta here!' I thought as I got up, along with all of the otherpledges, both guy and girl alike. All of a sudden the lights went out andI ha... a cloth with some strange smell held over my mouth and nose! Itried to struggle, but I soon passed out.When I woke up I was in a car with my hands and ankles handcuffed. I waslying in the back seat. I tried to get up, but I was still groggy fromthe stuff I breathed in. "I think he's up," a female voice said from the front."Well, give him some. The way she was responding made me even MORE suspicious.“Let’s go, Steve,” Samantha said.I followed her to a room just off the foyer where our coats and hats were. She retrieved my car keys from a hook on the wall, and we went out the front door. We got into the car, and I pulled out of the parking spot onto the drive and we left the property.“I think you need to clue me in,” I said.“Figure it out. What was today?”“Your eighteenth birthday,” I said.“And what happened?”“Holy shit! Your dad. If we built a tower on the south rim of the valley where we had watched for the baron’s men, they could see even farther than half a day’s ride.What I guessed to be a wealthy merchant showed up as we were loading our things. He had four slaves he wanted to sell. Three of his four slaves were experienced craftsmen. The fourth was a slave the Baron had forced him to buy a few days ago. I apologized, telling him that I only had eight gold coins left, showing him my money pouch. I still had two. Shewas trying to imagine a way to get out of this, perhaps talk Peter out of doing this to her. She had this area, more appropriately the area surrounding this area, waxed in an effort to remove the unwanted hair and to avoid it from showing when she wore her bathing suit, but it had never occurred to her to remove that hair altogether. Once he had laid the items on the table, Peter moved to Susan’s side, and looked directly at her. “It seems that you don’t like the idea of what you think is.