The idea thrilled her so much that she surprised herself. Yes, she was thegirl, not the one that did the fucking, but the one that got fucked. Nowshe ...ould be at his mercy. She would be held, maybe lifted or carried,perhaps even positioned as the man desired. It would be her body thatwould be devoured with a man's eyes. She would be the one to seduce, topose, to invite him to overwhelm her. Lyla had never thought about wantingthese things before, but now she couldn't imagine how she had ever. ”“So, Katie wasn’t your first?” Mom asked. “Becky had you that weekend before Katie’s birthday?”“That’s right, Mom,” I replied, “are you disappointed in me?”“No, I guess not,” Mom shrugged. “I’m amazed at Becky, though. She really did everything with you before you got to do it with Katie?”“Pretty much,” I admitted. “I was surprised after Katie’s birthday that Becky wanted to keep the lessons going. I think that was where I should have noticed things were getting weird.”“The whole thing was. "There's one difference between our worlds. No Sister in my world would've ever suggested killing a man, no matter what he'd done."The woman grimaced, but the youth said, "Please understand. The Sisterhood, our Sisterhood, has been dealing with the mad betrayer for the last decade. He has killed many of our number. We are at less than half the numbers we were before he started on the mad quest for our destruction. It has woven hate deeply into the fiber of our order. We healers try to correct. They're used to me saying weird things.Terry picked the books up and began leafing through them. "You mean like a conscience?" Yeah, sorta." I bribe mine to shut up," said Mike.Ah, hiding things in plain sight. Good work.Ursus fretted the low E on the fifth fret and then plucked the string beside it. "These are both As." He continued his tuning lesson for a time. Mike was starting to look a bit frustrated, so I said, "Let's try a few chords." I demonstrated the open E, Em, and Am.Mike began.