"Citizens of the empire," he started while behind him 4 servants hurried to attend to the royal family. The Emperor finally finished with the opening ...peech, and was about to start the proclamations when there were 2 soft pops, a scream started through the crowd.Rushing forward the Emperor's personal guard looked on in disbelief. There behind the Emperor and even closer to his family were 4 dead assassins! The Emperor's mouth hung open because there he saw his dead brother's son amongst those. Melody and Cole sat on the couch, one at each end. Phil and Jill sat in the two chairs to the left. Cole pointed to the middle of the lush area rug in front of the couch. “Pet, stand there.” She did, suddenly once more aware of her nakedness. At least on the balcony, with that view, she wasn’t the only thing being look at. Now she was the center of attention again. Cole said, “Tell us about your collar. Where did we get it?”“At Petsmart, Sir.”“Do you like it?”“Yes, Sir. Very much.”“And. It was at this point that one of the weaker willed members of the class broke down into tears, yelling "It's just not fair! He was so young!" While usually in this situation, this act and shout would have attracted sceptical glances and questions related to sanity, everyone was simply too sick with worry to find such an action out of the ordinary. All but one of the hardened, and quite obviously emotionally stable adolescents were in some state of teary reflection, varying between a quiet,. I asked if she had anyone in mind, and she replied, "Dave."We had been friends with Dave and his ex for many years; we still saw them both but Dave most regularly. She said she trusted him and knew that he liked her, and then to my surprise, admitted she had always had a little crush on him, though they had never done anything. I told her I was fine with that and rang Dave; Pat was listening when I told Dave what we were thinking and invited him for a meal on the weekend. He thought I was.