I was just putting the dishes away when a knock at the door sent my mind back into reality. “Coming!” I yelled over, closing the dishwasher and ma...e it over to the door. As I opened it, there he was and my heart stopped a beat. Those sky blue eyes shining with innocence, curiosity, life and energy. I couldn’t help but smirk as I stared deep down in Luke’s eyes. “Oh, hey Luke. Glad you could make it.” I stepped to the side, holding the door open to let him inside. I found myself look at his tail. I'm scared.", I whispered back. We followed Tripp up a back staircase, and onto a small stage. The black curtain was closed. In center stage there was a king-size four poster bed with a white lacy canopy. And there was a girl! The leather cuffs on her wrists were attached to a hook above her head on the left post at the foot of the bed. A metal bar attached to her ankle cuffs kept her legs spread wide apart. She was wearing the same dress as we. She also had a black bag like mask covering her. The reports and recordings of McElligott celebrating Stahl’s arrest, if they ever existed, were deleted and erased.In the same year that Stahl was found guilty and sentenced to death, his execution was set to be performed by the Kermac on Kermac Prime, as an official gesture of healing and admission of Union guilt.While awaiting his transfer to Kermac authorities, Stahl escaped the Brisbane Stockade and disappeared.To appease the furious Kermac, a series of show trials were held in just one. His hair, which his parents allowed him to keep slightly longish, was always falling across his face, and he would flip it back with a toss of his head. We lived in a big old fashioned house with plenty of spare rooms, but it had been decided that Bunty would share my room as he was not used to sleeping alone in a separate room. His parents were to leave on a Sunday night so on Sunday afternoon my mom got a spare bed set up in my room and asked me to make place at my study table for him to put.