The Havildar Major asked if he needed anything else. He thanked him for the room and furniture and requested that the senior NCOs report to him after ...reakfast the next morning.The next morning with four Havildar’s and the Havildar Major in attendance he crossed to the storeroom and dismissed the guard, sending him to the cookhouse to bring back buckets of boiling water. The men’s eyes gleamed when they saw the new rifles. Over the next hour he demonstrated how to clean the rifles first by. If he got up there, and they'd remove the ladder soon, he'd confront at least two guards, armed, armored, and probably experienced in war for longer than the fourteen years he'd been alive. And they'd stripped him of weapons and armor. After that, he'd be in the great hall of a castle. It would be occupied by armed knights unless there were an attack on the walls at that precise time. And how was he supposed to know when an attack occurred? On the other hand, the walls around him were stone --. I thought I knew his name. Johnny something. He lived nearby. Well, he wouldn't talk if he knew what was good for him. The next day at school I was with my friends, and I saw Johnny something headed toward me. I grabbed him and yanked his shorts up out of the back of his pants. My friends all laughed. Then I pushed him down, just to show him who's boss. My friends and I are always doing stuff like that. It's always good to terrorize those little punks whenever you can, just to remind 'em. "It seems like Natasha has adapted well," Lauren observed, cutting intoher chicken without any zeal, but offering a smile to the bimbo-dollthat was kneeling next to Celia."Oh, yes, she's a natural bimbo really," Celia said. "From the moment Isaw her deflowered at Judgement Hall, I knew she would take to her newlife like a fish to water. And she has."Natasha smiled at this, pleased it seemed to get such praise. I wasstill angry with him. Why had he kissed me like that? But I was alsoangry.